Iuza Beradze, a 71-year-old veteran folk singer, jokes as his wife helps him fasten the traditional Imeretian dress in the village of Kitskhi, Georgia. Beradze, who lost his son during the war in Abkhazia in the early 1990s, says that only singing and humor helped him survive all these years.
Temo Bardzimashvili is a freelance photojournalist based in Tbilisi.
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