The project "Missing Home" explores the psychological and emotional experience of Ukrainian families who have arrived in Georgia as they wrestle with memories of what they witnessed and left behind.
Ukraine has become a land of missing homes. More than hundred thousand residential buildings have been damaged or destroyed. Neighboring countries are flooded with devastated families grieving the loss of home and homeland.
An award-winning collection of photographs are created by US photographer and National Geographic Explorer Hailey Sadler. She spent August 2022 in Tbilisi, documenting the daily life of Ukrainian refugees forced to flee their homes due to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
The exhibition was held within the Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival at the "Hermit Space" gallery in early May. This time, Gori Art House will host "Missing Home" from 8th of September onwards.
The exhibition is curated by Annie Davarashvili, who worked with Hailey Sadler on the project throughout August.
This project is a cross-cultural collaboration between the Georgian organization Museograph and the Home Collective, a U.S.-based platform co-founded by Hailey Sadler.
The project is funded by the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi.
Hailey Sadler is a photographer, National Geographic Explorer, and conflict and migration specialist based out of Washington, D.C. She has a decade of experience across government, media, and foreign affairs, including as senior staff for legislators in the House Armed Services and Intelligence Committees in the U.S. Congress. She holds a Master of International Public Policy concentrating on international conflict from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Her research and long-term reporting have been supported by grants from the National Geographic Society, Getty Images, Adobe, the IWMF, and Solutions Journalism Network, and published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, PBS Newshour, CNN, as well as exhibited worldwide.
www.haileysadler.com
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Exhibition opening: September 8 | 18.00
Exhibition duration: September 8-30, 2023.
Venue: Art House, 5, Guramishvili Str, Gori, Georgia
