Daro Sulakauri

Photographer

Daro Sulakauri is a Georgian photojournalist and visual Artist. Using mixed media with documentary and contemporary approach, her work chronicles the social and political issues in the Caucasus. She graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York. Upon completing her studies, she returned to the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia to document a hidden narrative of the Chechen conflict in an outpost of refugees which won her Young Photographers in Caucasus Award from Magnum Photos in 2009. Her work on early marriages in Georgia was awarded the first prize by LensCulture, EU prize for journalism. She was a participant of the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass 2017, Reuters Photojournalism grantee and a Catchlight global Fellow. Daro is a frequent contributor for The New York Times. Her work appears in Reuters, National Geographic, Die Zeit, Forbes, Der Spiegel, Times, The Economist, Bloomberg, among others. She currently lives and works in Georgia.

At this moment I am investigating one of the darkest crimes of our time: the abduction of thousands of babies during the 90s and early 2000s in Georgia. These babies were wrongly declared dead by hospital doctors before being sold for adoption on a black market.

Defending against the erasure of our culture, history and borders, my photographs tell the stories of people's survival in the shadow of a superpower.

Advocacy, Photography, Photojournalism, Visual Art

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