05.29.2018

The cattle market is Emyl Masimov’s weekend playground. Every Sunday, with the night still shrouding his native village of Sabirkendi, the 12-year-old wakes up and travels with his father, Khalit, 10 kilometers to the weekly animal bazaar in Marneuli, a predominantly ethnic Azerbaijani town west of Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. It is a long day -- from 1am through the mid-afternoon, constantly checking calves and cows, bargaining and counting.