The Georgian Russian Highway

In September this year, I travelled for 14 days through Georgia. Georgia has a very complicated past but in recent years it has been able to develop as an independently. It has an incredible ancient History, diverse landscape and Culture. I was attracted by the European meeting Asia aspect and wanted to explore and document the ordinary life and culture. I travelled using local transport, whilst on the Mushukas I saw a lot of interesting archeiture and daily life of the local people and this is what I wanted to portray within my visual images. Along the main Georgian Military highway, I was able to create a narrative whilst the bus was moving. I like liked this feeling of movement and looking out of the window creating a documentary approach to essence of the moment itself. This has given me a series of images of what is an honest representation on what I was seeing and how I reacted fluidity of the moment to its final visual context as a series of images, knowing that if the image would be completely different a few moments later. This has opened a different way for me in the way I take my images, having now control on the content, only control was through using technical approach within the camera. This series presents my ongoing interest in how we attempt to negotiate a narrative whilst traveling through country in a vehicle whilst in motion, are the images a true representation of a place or daily life of a place. Or is this a false way to portray a place? this I think is what I want to challenge the viewer of these images. I have always connected with the Iggy Pop song, Passenger, “Oh, the passenger, How, how he rides, Oh, the passenger, He rides and he rides, He looks”. I have some connection with this song with the images that I am making which challenge my intentions, it is very much a moment of time, being an outsider looking and being the observer of people life’s and how the landscape represented at that time.