Temo Bardzimashvili is a documentary photographer based in Tbilisi, Georgia, but doing projects outside the country as well. He works mostly on social, environmental and ethnographical topics. Has been working as a freelance photographer for EurasiaNet online magazine since 2008. His works have been published in The Washington Post, Bloomberg News, The National (UAE), The Financial Times etc.
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Georgia: Feasting with the Spirits in a Dying Village
By Temo Bardzimashvili
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 5 February 2011
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“Tonight starts the remembrance of the spirits’ holiday. Let’s praise the souls of the dead!” Mamuka Qaldani, a thirty-eight-year-old livestock herder from Georgian mountain village of Adishi, proposes a toast at the local cemetery and then belts down a shot of vodka. Representatives from all families of the village are also here – on [...]