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Patrick Bienert

Photographer

Patrick Bienert

East End of Europe

The series portrays a Georgian generation in transition between soviet heritage and western modernity looking for a closeness to Europe. The photographs were taken over the period from 2015 - 2018 in a dialogue with the younger generations about their perspectives, dreams and the daily life in the country.
Present Georgia is still shaped by the past and the conservatism of the Georgian Orthodox Church. In the patriarchal society of Georgia most women are expected to submit to the conventions.

Patrick Bienert

Patrick Bienert is a German photographer who works on long-term projects of portrait, landscape and documentary photography. He predominantly documents youth culture and transformation on the borders of Eastern Europe. In January 2020, he published the book East End of Europe, about a pro-European generation in Georgia. In 2017, Bienert published the book Wake Up Nights, about young nightlife culture in Ukraine. His third book Happy Springs about Ukrainian youth along the Dnipro River and by the sea, he published in February 2023. His work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Double Magazine, The Atlantic and Zeit Magazin.