
The scars of Shukruti
Photographer: Egor Borie
Exhibit Title: The scars of Shukruti
Location: Georgia
In the small Georgian village of Shukruti, houses are cracking at the seams and the soil is subsiding, exposing the deep wounds of industrialization. Dozens of houses have already been destroyed, while others await their fate.
At a depth of 70-100 meters, industrial manganese mining is taking place under the villagers' feet. The company that extracts the wealth from the subsoil claims that the current woes are just an echo of the Soviet past. But every new crack in the house, every piece of sagging land screams the opposite.
The hunger strikes and demonstrations in Tbilisi are a call for justice echoing from the mountains of Georgia to the walls of parliament. Memorandums and selective symbolic compensations have proven to be only an attempt to fix reputations, not a solution to people's real problems.
Egor Borie (1989) shoots documentary photo projects inwhich heexplores everyday life, problems ofemigration, and other social phenomena. He works inportrait genre and deadpan style.
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