Frozen Waves, by Dina Oganova

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It was “normal” in the nineties in Georgia. But I realize that it’s still happening somehow…

All my childhood I listened to stories about how some boy or man with friends would steal a girl to get a married with her. Sometimes girls didn’t even know who their future husbands would be but they didn’t have a choice and decided to stay. It was a big shame to come back home after getting stolen. Everybody knows that you are not a virgin anymore. Who will marry you after that?! Families too didn’t want to get them back because now you have a new “owner.”

It was “normal” in the nineties in Georgia. But I realize that it’s still happening somehow…

Photographs & Text: Dina Oganova (DIKARKA) | Website: http://www.dikarka.ge

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