“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 [...]

Pantsula culture was born some time in the 1950’s and 60’s in the townships of South Africa. It initially refered to a style of dress but grew into a culture and eventually a dance form. By the 1980’s when the townships were in flames and Apartheid police were at war with young black men in [...]

A few miles away from the center of Athens, there is a beach where people with disabilities and their friends and family members can meet up and socialize. The atmosphere is rich with emotions.
I started this documentary project a few months before, and now realize that this project will be a long term project, maybe [...]

There weren’t as many blondes on May 29, 2010 in Riga as expected by organizers, “tens of thousands”, but the event was conceived to change the public mood in Latvia, a country in Europe hit hard by economic crisis. The Latvian press said that this ‘Go Blonde’ will be a major tourist attraction for the [...]

Istanbul was an ongoing issue in my travels. I have to admit that it has been a pleasant surprise, even though in this the first time, were a few days which I dedicated to photographing.
Istanbul, I was impressed by the warm hospitality of the Turks not to mention a tourist [...]

A petite settlement in north-west Delhi has a shade of wonder added to it! The ‘Kathputli Colony’ - as it is popularly known is no different from a typical Indian slum with its worn-out shanties, dirty lanes and pitiable basic infrastructure. But the people who throng the alleys of this illegal skid row are sorcerers [...]