FRANCE. Paris. January 1, 2021. Sheni Tshirime! Like a good Soviet photographer pushed to look for progress, positive, new beginning and hope I was erring the empty and abandoned streets of Paris, under a strict curfew, when the new year started. No fireworks. Quite a lot of police. A few homeless and refugees were out. Bleedingly homesick and missing ( the country of ) Georgia, where I have spent so many of the last 30 or so new year eves, I could only call my friends.
An old expressions in the Georgian language, offering to share grief, pain and trouble, is « შენი ჭირიმე » - May your plague be mine! Sheni Tshirime!