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Date

6 May 2023

Gallery

Hermit Space Gallery

Opening time

20:00

Hailey Sadler

Missing Home

Curated by Annie Davarashvili

Ukraine has become a land of missing homes. With hundreds of thousands of residential buildings damaged or destroyed, neighboring countries are flooded with devastated families overwhelmed with grief. “Missing Home” explores the psychological and emotional experience of Ukrainian families who have arrived in Georgia as they wrestle with memories of what they witnessed and left behind. 

An award-winning collection of photographs are created by US photographer and National Geographic Explorer Hailey Sadler. She spent August 2022 in Tbilisi, documenting the daily life of Ukrainian refugees forced to flee their homes due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. 

One year into Russia's full-scale invasion, these photographs provide a tender and timely look at what life is like for many Ukrainian families. By documenting some of the physical and psychological safe spaces Ukrainian refugees have found or made for themselves in Tbilisi, we intend to visually hold the tension of remaking home in a new place and the ache from the absence of home left behind. 

The exhibition is curated by Annie Davarashvili, who worked with Hailey Sadler on the project throughout August. 

This project is a cross-cultural collaboration between the Georgian nonprofit organization, Museograph and the Home Collective, a U.S.-based platform co-founded by Hailey Sadler

Hailey Sadler is a National Geographic Explorer and Conflict & Migration Specialist based out of Washington, D.C. She has over a decade of experience, including as senior staff for legislators serving on the House Armed Services and Intelligence Committees in the U.S. Congress. She holds a Master of International Public Policy concentrating on international conflict from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Her capstone research project focused on the long-term impacts of intergenerational trauma after the protracted war. Her research and long-term reporting have been supported by grants from the National Geographic Society, Getty Images, Adobe, the IWMF, and Solutions Journalism Network, and published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Associated Press, PBS Newshour, CNN, and exhibited worldwide.

The project is supported by the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi.