Martine Franck first visited Georgia in 1972, accompanying her husband Henri Cartier-Bresson on his second tour of the Soviet Union. She returns in 2009 for, in her words, "a journey into Georgian family life, among old and new friends". Her perspective is from inside Georgian families - mainly among the artists of Tbilisi but including refugees from South Ossetia and members of Georgia's former royal family - and her chapter takes the form of a family album. Her text is in the form of a diary, accounting her experience of travelling among the Georgians.

"March 9th 2009: We spend the evening...