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I have been working on the photos for a cook book on Georgian cuisine in one of the fancy restaurants in the old town by the river. The music played in this place has started to give grey hairs and full day head aches, it is really the very least attractive music available here in Georgia. They also follow a scheme where the volume is increased rather than the opposte when more guests arrive. anyhow we have managed to get some pretty fair photos of the lovely Georgian food.

Green bean sallad

stew

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For sure the photos are different, but not in the way Saakashvili anticipated. There are a certain degree of questioning in the pictures that he did not like. Some beautiful and simple photos of Tbilisi was added in the beginning and the end to dampen the emotions the rest of the photos might stir up. It is also very comic that the georgian text in the book got mixed up with complete jiberish at the printing house and the first batch was decided to be donated to libraries. But at the end of the day, it is a beautiful book with text and photos far beyond. it is as always the very vanguard of photography, an inspiration for the mind and eye!

Regional meeting, greens from Sweden and the Caucasus got together to talk about the future

I have started a photoproject about the Green party in Georgia, the Swedish Green party is engaged in helping them and supporting them. Now as my time is mostly focussed on the food photos and the teaching I have only met them a couple of times, I think there is potential for some really interesting work here, they have a big challange facing them or many rather.

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I tagged along when SIDA was invited to one of the Ossetian refugee camps outside Tbilisi. They are funding a local football association.

My brother came to visit, he looks better in kodak chrome, but B/W works!

Me and my brother went to a small village outside Gori. Here we are disturbing an old man who is mustering his cows.

And we went to the Kaheti region in the east of Georgia. brilliant light, brilliant food and lovely people!

I have a new job taking photos for a cook book about Georgian food. this is katchapuri, a very representative dish.

Food is a passion, thats for sure. I dont agree fully to the way the food is presented. it is very “Jante”, there is no ambition to make it beautiful to match the taste, of course with exception but today i was trying to photograph a fish that looked more dead than is pleasant.

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However, It was a real good time, seeing the city with four eyes is way more pleasant I’d say. Apart from the scoops we made on the back streets in Tbilisi we took a taxi to visit Gori. I had met a man, a children book author on a seminar in Tbilisi, who met up with us after we had walked through the deserted Stalin museum as the only guests. Vasil, the author of a small book of poetry for children took us to a nearby restaurant and treated me and my brother too a vegetarian (for my brother) dinner. Salads, walnut filled aubergine and cheese filled breads that I believe would be fantastically popular in Sweden, there is room somewhere in the land between a cheese toast and a pizza, pure love in other words.

We had a rumbling night at a local restaurant in my neighborhood with bad vodka, more cheese bread and some song to allow for better passage for the vodka down the road it was heading. I woke up the next morning without any recognition of self, on an alcohol diet since.

We travelled by machutka or minibus to the Kaheti region, east of Tbilisi, to see the wine production and the mountains. We found a more than lovely couple to stay with. They cooked us some dishes that surely had some divine hand laid upon them and we slept through the night in squeaky beds on the second floor in their large house while the cold winds hollowed outside.

We woke up in a sunny morning and to a hearty breakfast. The landlady asked if our kind did not like normal bread and since we were down on conversation since she only spoke fragments of English we pointed at the cheese filled bread and then patted our stomachs and we payed for the room and the board. 30 GEL/pp or some 12€. We took a taxi to a summer palace just outside town to see how the Georgian aristocrats lived 150 years ago and had a tour in the cellar to see some bottles of Chateau yeqem from 1861.

The ride back to Tbilisi was merely 2 hours this time rather than 2.5 since the driver were pushing the poor bus beyond sanity. I was crammed in the far back, resting m legs on a large parcel and opening the window to give space enough for my lungs to breathe. Good ride though, the people are not bad at driving, they just don’t care about rules, there is a difference.

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