TBILISSIMO

We explore contemporary Tbilisi and Georgia through images there.

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Strange Magnolia in Batumi

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How to buy tonis puri (special bread) in Tbilisi, Georgia

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How to make better decisions.

- Let's buy these pasta, Barilla, they are very good.

- Ok, why?

- Because they are a distributor. Good distributor.

- Well, come on, take it.

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somewhere at night

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the most cinematic sunny bunny in Georgia

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Neighbors

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Oldschool cozy studio 🖤

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— I studied in Moscow. in “Druzhba Narodov”. and then studied for seven years in graduate school in Finland.

— in Finland?

— yes, there. Finland is the same with Georgia! if they know whether you are a good or a bad person, they will be treated accordingly. if they know you well they will help. and if they don’t know - wuuuu. Besides when I arrived in Kotka, I lived at the airoport for three days. until meting person from the institute take me away from here. I slept right on the benches. Somebody from the airport asked how to help me? I say, I don’t know your language. they brought me an interpreter and then they covered me with a blanket, they gave me a pillow and food. But Georgians would immediately say get out and kicked out in the same situation ...

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- excuse me, could you please wash my hair only once time?

- hmmm

- ups, it’s a second one, am I right?

- hmmm

- it’s thierd time! What is going on?

- its the last one, for control.

- 😱

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Hidden Tbilisi

«He came back from Russia and now sitting, looking for a job. He wants a blue-eyed and fair-haired for now».

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Cozy but cold

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In the middle of nowhere

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Deprived of Adolescence

Photographed by Daro Sulakauri

Georgia has one of the highest rates in europe for early marriages. Marriages occur mainly in Kakheti and Adjara regions, it is mostly shown among religious and ethnic minorities. In villages large number of girls are taken out of school to be married. After going to a wedding in a small village and observing the bride and the groom, I decided that this story needs to be told. I had no information before that I lived in a country with statistically one of the highest rate of early marriage in Europe. One of the first photograph I showed to the Georgian public was a photo that demonstrated a seventeen-year old at her wedding, having only met her soon–to–be husband, in his mid twenties, on the day of their engagement. As tears dropped from her eyes, dancing in front of her house, the dance demonstrated a farewell to her family, before the wedding ceremony. A situation far too real across Georgia, in which girls — too young to comprehend marriage — are sent off by families to be wed with little–to–no schooling, and will never have the opportunity, again, to continue any form of formal education. Whence placing this photograph on social media, the response was big, hitting both ends of the spectrum. The greatest opposers of the work were ethnic minority groups, demanding the photo be taken down. Yet, the photo had created: a framework or platform for citizens to comment and debate on the issue at hand. I want people to see from my photographs what it’s like for others living in different regions. I believe when you look at a photograph it can be a wake-up call in a certain way. Sometimes we forget to connect with humanity and   when you see what’s going on in other people’s lives, it gives awareness, which leads to change.

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isolation party

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