Crown
from TWTGE the flower issue, July 2012
The first photo by Mariam Sitchinava that I remind is a pale beautiful girl with a flower vase beneath her, and from that time, I fell in love with her photos and she became a lovely contributor of The World Through Green Eyes. Beauty and flower are a costant of Mariam’s Photography, a real love that express her personal style, as you can also see in her new set, “Jasmine”. Mariam is always an emotion, from every shots she is able to extract the brightness of woman , and “Crown” is the peak of that, thirteen Georgian girls aged 17 to 23 with their self-made flower crown, all shoot with film. This work is a search of a deep beauty that excludes the surface filling it with the elegance and color of nature, as she presents it, a project that expressed her desire of depicting women’s inner color palette alongside with her beautifulness with the help of flora.
Hi Mariam, please introduce yourself.
I’m a film photographer from Tbilisi, Georgia
When and how your project “Crown” born?
About 3 months ago. I love nature and as you know I’m shooting women, I thought about the idea which would combine these two aspects, so I came up with the idea of the project- CROWN.
Do you get ispiration from something or someone in particular?
It’s hard to say, inspirational can be everything.
Every crown reflect the personality of the girls or is it just a play of colors?
Yes, as the descriptions says all of them reflects.
Who makes the crown? Are you able to do that?
No, I’m not able. Every model made their own crown.
Who are the model in this project?
The girls are Tina, Katya, Tamari, Nino, Mariami, Sopa, Keta, Lika, Irina, Sofa, Ninutsi, Anka.
An uncomfortable question now.. What express mostly beauty, nature or your amazing models?
Both of them.
Which camera do you use for this project?
Several…
and which films do you use?
Same here.
Flower says..
I don’t know what its says, but I definitely know that flower gives positive emotions.
People can buy the photos?
Yes, they can. Through my etsy shop. All Photos are limited editions.
Do you have some other project in progress?
Yes.
Do you want to say something that I don’t ask you?
No, you know that I don’t like talking about myself…
Where people can find you and your works?
On my personal site and on facebook.
A last question, what is photography?
Everything for me currently.
www.mariam.ge