Paris, October 7, 2024

 

 

“I grew up in the nineties, during the collapse of the Soviet Union and then the war. It was a difficult period. We often didn’t have electricity. But at the same time my childhood was filled with color. We went to a lot of parties where there was music, dancing. Once I met a musician. He was kind of underground. My family went to one of his concerts. It was at a painter’s studio. My parents went home, but they let me stay. I was there until four in the morning. I was maybe eleven or twelve, and I’ll never forget it.”

 

Monday late afternoon, tiny glasses of water, spacious parlor room.

 

She holds Ana’s baby in her arms, a friend visiting from Georgia sits on the couch, she also has a pouch.

 

The friend shows us her home in Tbilisi, it’s full of Byzantine tiles, come visit they say.

 

From the People series, photographed by Ana Roque. Keti carries the Pouch in Americano.