Game-changer

As a former Soviet republic, Georgia is in a historic moment where most youths want to replace the old Soviet mentality with the new, modern way of thinking and tend to shift to the Western lifestyle. It is a generation that, in recent years, has launched several movements, among them many protest movements to demand social and civil rights to be protected. Pictures symbolically portray the birth of this distinguished generation from the heart of massive structures built during the soviet union times— buildings that, in my project, are metaphors of that Soviet mentality where individuals did not matter.

The subjects were asked to pose in front of a white backdrop, which symbolically isolates them from the once-familiar surroundings of monumental Soviet-era buildings to which they no longer feel connected.