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Daro Sulakauri

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Daro Sulakauri

Gldani Prison Scandal

On 18 September, 2012, Georgian national TV channels broadcast video footage of multiple tortures and sexual assault committed by jailers
against prisoners in Gldani Prison in the capital Tbilisi. In response to footage including prisoners beaten with rubber truncheons and molested with household brooms, large numbers of Georgian citizens joined protest rallies across the country. Georgian students responded in unprecedented numbers, condemning
conditions in the country’s penitentiary system and inhumane treatment of prisoners. This discontent spurred a sense of a broader failure of Georgian democracy and a desire for broader political reform. They emphasized that this scandal embodied systemic injustices
rather than an isolated case of misbehavior .
The students also protested absence of institutionalized freedom of expression and Georgia’s lack of an independent, impartial media. In response, the government
yielded and announced parliamentary elections, in which a majority of Georgians supported the opposition Georgian Dream party. On 2 October 2012, President Saakashvili conceded defeat to Bidzina Ivanishvili and his Georgian Dream party in the previous
day’s election.

Daro Sulakauri

Daro Sulakauri is a Georgian photojournalist based in Tbilisi. Her work chronicles the social and political issues in Caucasus. She Graduated from the ICP in 2006, where she was awarded the John and Mary Phillips Scholarship and ICP Director's Fund for her work on anti-war movement in New York.  Upon completing her studies, she returned to the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia to document a hidden narrative of the Chechen conflict in an outpost of refugees. The project won second place in the Magnum Foundation's Young Photographer in the Caucasus award in 2009. Sulakauri was also awarded first prize for her story on Early Marriages by LensCulture, EU prize for journalism and Human Right House in London.
She was included in a list of 30 under 30 Women Photographers and Photo District News' 30 emerging photographers to watch. She is a participant of World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass 2017 and 2018 Reuters Photojournalism grantee. As of 2018, Sulakauri is a official Canon Ambassador.  Her work can be seen in publications such as The New York Times, National Geographic, der Spiegel, Forbes Magazine, Reporters without borders, GEO Magazine and other.