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original url http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/1451/

archived on 2009-04-26 14:19:22

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Brittany Murphy at the Vogue Fashion Awards (2002)

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Paintings by Georgian artist Shalva Kikodze (შალვა ქიქოძე)

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Georgian folk fashion. Designed by Samoseli Pirveli.

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Informal market at suburban train station in Tbilisi, Georgia. Photographed by Alex Webb.

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In a train between Tbilisi and Rustavi, Georgia. Photographed by Alex Webb.

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Photo project of the photographers native village Tagveti, Khashuri, Georgia

"When I realized what I was looking for in a photograph, I started taking pictures of my village. My first photo project is its documentation and I am continuing to photograph it to this day. The project is called Village of the Mice and is the portrayal of my own village, its history, and the people who live or have lived there. The images show how it’s changed, how it diminished and, in a way, I can say that its history is somehow similar to Georgia’s fate. From today's perspective, when looking at the people in my photographs, I realize how hard those years were for them – the country was going through several hardships. Some of the villagers I photographed have passed away, some others have left… you will now see many empty houses, ruined buildings and very few people who still live there. What I’m trying to say is that emigration is not just a single village’s problem but a general issue of the country. There even exist statistics of two hundred villages being abandoned, nobody lives there anymore. I think this is caused by the prevailing harsh environment as it is very hard for the villagers to survive."

- Natela Grigalashvili

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Abandoned Soviet Sanatoria and Their Current Inhabitants: Tskaltubo, Georgia

"Tskaltubo a small town in western Georgia, reached fame thanks to its sanatoria. During the Soviet era, more than 100.000 visitors would hurry each year, in the twenty or so luxurious establishments, to enjoy the spas and saunas, of which Stalin himself was a regular. Nowadays, these gigantic jewels of soviet neo-classic architecture are falling to ruins… but they are still inhabited. Around 6.000 people have found refuge in these old hotels: they are the displaced from the war in Abkhazia. Between 1992 and 1993, the Georgians who were forced to flee the separatist region were “temporarily” relocated in these sanatoria.

25 years later, there are still many of them waiting for the state to provide them with real housing. They survive with pensions or meager indemnities, their life suspended at the heart of the dilapidated relics of soviet magnificence.

In October 2019, Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili announced that he wanted buy the 22 sanatoria and 9 baths to the State. The project can seem insane, but not for this 63 years old founder of the Georgian Dream party and former prime minister, whose fortune is estimated to 4.85 billion euros. He promises that the displaced will be relocated and that about 20.000 jobs will be created. But many doubt the generosity of his projects, the explosion of tourism in the country is certainly no stranger to his offer."

- Photography and text by Juliette Roberts

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Wind, by Karin Hosono

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He is eating onigiri with his friends Cappuccino and Espresso. His onigiri has a sour filling!