The National Geographic: “Notes from Svanetia: Fourteen Years Later, a Story Comes Full Circle”

National Geographic photographer Aaron Huey has returned to Svanetia, a remote region of Georgia 14 years after his first trip to revisit the people and the place that inspired his future career.

While re-reading journals full of recipes, songs, and vocabulary he learned on his first visit, Huey talks about the family that took him in when he first arrived. "The whole family still sings in the kitchen. There are just some of those things that never change, and I found a lot of those again.”

This place, Svanetia, was the first place I made a photo story. I’d fallen in love with the people and the landscape and the songs of this remote region of the Georgian Republic on a journey I took there with my first camera in 1998.

Huey discovers many similar scenes on his return, such as traditional Svan singers and dancers, in a place few have witnessed.

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