To depict a portrait of a country is a hard task, almost an impossible one. Yet this is what I
attempted to do, since 2010 through my many journeys in Georgia, 20 years after the dissolution of USSR.
Beside
the conflict that confronted Georgia with Russia in 2008, my reference on this country was Iosseliani's
films.
The Georgian people I have met are those Uncertain Heroes,
heroes of an in-between, between Europe and Asia, between a soviet area and today's pro-western orientation.
It seems they are asking me to pull them away from potentially being left in a forgotten past.
Failing
to stay amongst them or to take them with me out of this locked-in territory, I photographed this surprising
out-of-time stage where the landscapes carry the stunning beauty of the forgotten worlds. The strong
presence of beings and places has marked me on the long term and I have created this long lost country
suspended in times and history.