“Georgia” isn’t published yet, even though there exists a book dummy, which looks terrific. I hope we don’t need to wait too long for it.
“I went to Georgia for the first time in 2003, not long after the Rose Revolution. I didn’t go because of the revolution as such, but that was the context I found myself in. I was on a journey, a personal journey, a dialogue with photography and story telling. Georgia, like so many places with a sense of an ancient past, was a place that seemed to be in love with its own idea of self. It is a place where people comfortably celebrate the lush beauty of the land. The density and texture of the forests and mountains at first sight, transport you to a reality that might have been created by some alchemists brew. It is the same with the features of people who occupy this place.[…]
On my return in 2008, after a summer at war with it’s powerful neighbour. I found my friends exhausted but very much alive, alive in a way that is only possible when one is so close to the possibility of death. I wanted to search for the people I felt most represented a flavour of this collective imagining, both theirs and at once mine. I chose dancers and pilgrims, guests at weddings, and young judo players, they are only the beginning. It is a work in progress and I must add to these portraits of human faces, a series of portraits of the land, the land that lies so close to the origin of their story telling.” - Vanessa Winship
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Georgia”
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Georgia”
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Georgia”
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Georgia”
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Georgia”
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Georgia”
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