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The Last Nomads

In Georgia’s Adjara highlands, a traditional way of life is slowly disappearing.

The region lacks access to quality education, health care and essential public services; electricity outages are common, and during harsh winters, villages are often cut off entirely from the outside world. For this project, I wanted to document a way of life that is slowly disappearing — not out of nostalgia, but out of a desire to show how a community adapts to changing circumstances and creates new meaning in today’s world. Playing volleyball during Shuamtoba celebrations, a traditional holiday during which family members from the lowlands go visit their relatives in the highlands during the summer grazing season.

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