Mountainous Adjara is one of the most distinguished regions of Georgia. The traditions and the old ways of life have been preserved to this day in this area. The isolation and alienation of inhabitants of this mountainous area has been an ongoing issue for a long time. Last several decades...
Mariam Amurvelashvili: Take Me Home
These portraits are of people and the dogs that they adopted from shelters and the streets of Georgia. The laws and regulations on the matter of animal rights are still developing in Georgia, therefore many animals are abused, abandoned, killed daily. Says Mariam: Every day I witnessed how young people...
Natela Grigalashvili: Life of Georgian Nomads
Mountainous Adjara is one of the most distinguished regions of Georgia. The traditions and the old ways of life have been preserved to this day in this area. The isolation and alienation of inhabitants of this mountainous area has been an ongoing issue for a long time. Last several decades...
Mattia Vacca: The Russian Doukhobors – Disappearing Minority in Georgia
The Doukhobors have left Russia since Tsar Nicholas I exiled them in the 1840s. They settled their community in remote Georgian villages among the border with Armenia and Turkey at almost 2500 meters of altitude. They are a Christian sect that believed God resides within every person, rendering the need...
Daro Sulakauri: The Black Gold
Walking in the City of Chiatura in a hot weather is almost like a misty dance floor of a club. Manganese dust looks as if it is visible due to open pit mines. The main river Kvirila, which flows through the whole town is poluted as the remnants of the...
Arne Piepke: Abkhazia
Abkhazia is a small region located at the black sea, bordering with Russia and Georgia. Once ruled by the Soviet Union, the region declared independence from Georgia after the collapse of the USSR. A conflict arose, which escalated in a war in 1992. The once called “Caucasian paradise“ never healed...
Natela Grigalashvili: The Doukhobors’ Land
The Doukhobors, as they call themselves the spirit-warriors, are an Orthodox Protestant society, which appeared three centuries ago in Russia, Tambov province. Exiled by the Russian Tsar and relocated to Georgia, Doukhobors founded eight villages in Javakheti Region, biggest of them was Gorelovka. They consider Javakheti as a holy land,...
Jennifer Garza-Cuen: Rabun
About her "Rabun" project says Jennifer: Many years ago I left America to travel the world. I spent over a decade doing just that and in the process experienced first-hand the often arresting disparity between our perceptions (made up of memory and myth) and reality (which seems to lie somewhere...
Fulvio Bugani: Twilight
The ancient traditions and the call of the ancestors are the forces that drive some populations to stay connected to inhospitable places, which they perceive as part of their group identity. The seasonal return to these remote areas, is a return to tradition, a rediscover of their roots and a...
Natela Grigalashvili: Book of my Mother
My mother was born in the beginning of World War II in a small village. By this time her father was already in war, from where he didn’t return. She was ten years old when her mother died. She was hit by a train. I remember her saying once: “I...