This boy was fishing for over an hour. I was fascinated.
	One of the many massive statues visible from the Soviets.
Laundry above Ch'avch'avadze, one of Tbilisi's biggest streets.	The park is for lovers, with no privacy at home.	The apartment building across from the one I lived in.

Woman with fruit and nude, on Ch'avch'avadze.	Cracked earth in Vak'e park, legacy of a hot dry summer.

 

These were taken at the Ethnographic Museum's festival, July 22nd and 23rd, 2006

A fourth member of Odoia	Boys in Ach'arian costume	Woman selling traditional dance costumes

Guys playing soccer outside the houses	Wrestling during Sachidao, a wrestling song; Mtiebi with auxiliary women singers

Young girls watching the performance

 

These few photos were taken at various times in the bus station, Navtlughis Sadguri, which I got to know quite intimately over the course of my stay.

Man selling cookies to passengers.	Different man selling things; men and women go door-to-door to eke a living.	Girl waiting for the bus.

 

These are all photos taken in Dzveli Tbilisi, Old Tbilisi. I walked down there almost every day that I was in the city. The architecture is beautiful and the people never fail to surprise.

One of the sidestreets off the main drag.	This is the old synagogue of the Gruzim, Georgian Jews.	Old women outside that synagogue, who offered me their relatives as husbands.
The carving on this balcony is very old and very characteristic.	The main drag.	I saw this dove on my way down from my friend Teah's house.
He saw my camera and asked me to take a photo; the man behind him asked my nationality and then asked for a date.	A boy selling lemonade on the main drag.	This house is right next door to the balconied one above.

A kitten outside my friend Sara's home, right next door to the synagogue.

 

Teah Pirtskhelani is an old and dear friend; she toured with Northern Harmony (Village Harmony's adult division), and I got to know her in Sighnaghi in 2003. Now she's married, and lives in Tbilisi with her husband and (as of October 2006) two children. Here she is with her daughter Mariami.

 

And finally, a somewhat random collection of images culled in and around Tbilisi throughout my stay.

Two kids in the yard outside my favourite internet cafe.	The entrance from our apartment building's courtyard to the street.	Men playing backgammon on a backstreet.
Woman begging in one of the underpasses along Rust'aveli, main thoroughfare.	Man in doorway, on sidestreet.	Old elevator shaft, on sidestreet.

 

Gypsy child, set out in a wheelchair to beg, outside the MacDonald's on Rust'aveli.