Child and adolescent depression and anxiety grew 25 percent globally due to the pandemic.
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Tako Robakidze
Tako Robakidze is a documentary photographer based in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 2008 she got Bachelor’s degree in Law at Tbilisi State University. Parallel to the university studies, she was enrolled in school of documentary photography ‘Sepia’, and continued her studies for 5 years. In 2015, she received her master's degree from Caucasus University's Graduate School of Journalism. Since 2010 she has been working as a freelance photographer, cooperated with Georgian and international NGOs, covering diverse social topics. In 2017 she received Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellowship. In 2020 she was recipient of Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum Multimedia Lab Production Grant. In 2020 for her work about Georgian IDPs she got production grant of Goethe Institute. In 2021 she received Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship. In 2022 she was selected as VII Academy Fellow. She is a National Geographic Explorer. In 2023 she was chosen for VII academy
Mentorship Program. In 2024 she received Alexia award of excellence. Her work is focused on documenting sociopolitical conditions and experiences of war in Georgia.
Author's stories
Covid’s silent victims: Children in Georgia struggle with depression, anxiety
Ana made me think about the world differently. She made me more sensitive to the environment around me and, after spending time with her, I started listening to everyone and everything more carefully. She is passionate about helping other people. When you are with her you can sense her inner strength as well as her sincerity and determination. After meeting Ana, I decided to turn the project into an essay about her, and the project became very personal and special for me.
My name is Ana
In these situations, nothing is clearly right or clearly wrong. And this is why war is brutal. Everyone is ugly and brutal in war.
Faces of Ukraine: Stories of survival from Georgia
The evolution of queer activism in Georgia
From street violence to Stand-Up scene | The story of Nata Talikishvili
Hundreds of thousands of citizens have protested against the government on Rustaveli Avenue in the capital since November 28, 2024.
Citizens! Please, disperse! Otherwise…
Ten women sit in a circle, shoeless on the rug blanketing the small room, which is cloaked, in dim light. They are wrapped in silence, deep and still.