Stories
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People of Samgori market
April 10, 2017
When I first came to Georgia, I was not so sure my photography project on self-esteem would be as achievable as it had been in Bhutan. The principle is to meet with strangers, take their portrait and then meet again to give them a print. In my experience, the self-esteem…
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Abkhazia - Visit to Tomasyin Gayane
February 11, 2017
In the Sokhumi area, in Abkhazia, an NGO called AMRA (“sun” in Abkhaz) carries out the HAP (Health Access Program) project with MSF funding. AMRA provides assistance to poor elderly people. The project includes regular home visits, provision of drugs and dry food, and firewood in winter. The program officially…
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Joseph of Gori
February 10, 2017
In Gori, an hour drive from the Georgian capital, we have a date with Besarionis dze Jughashvili, native of the area, who is better known as Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. Stalin was born in Gori in 1878 and despite all the well documented abuses during is ruling, he still has cult…
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Batumi TB hospital
January 28, 2017
MSF in Georgia has invited me to join a team on a field trip. In Georgia, MSF works on multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and operates in several regions of the country as well as in the (de facto) Republic of Abkhazia
Arriving at Zugdidi railway station, Georgia
At Tbilisi Central…