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Daro Sulakauri

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Daro Sulakauri

House Divided

What does it feel like when you are living on the edge, to be perpetually on the edge of losing, say, a part of your house? How about waking up to find that your house is divided by territorial lines, with your living room still in your own country, but your kitchen now residing within enemy-occupied territory? Inhabitants of South Ossetian villages must prepare for this reality, while other are already experiencing this as their new reality. Following a brief war in 2008, Georgia lost another portion of its territory to Russian occupation, in which South Ossetia became a de facto ‘breakaway’ region.
Since those conflicts occurred, occupying Russian forces continue to play psychological games with nearby Georgian citizens, including this phenomenon of ‘creeping borders,’ which change without notice and little-to-no attention from the international community.

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.