About Ani Tager from Anna Botcharova

"I want it all: with the soul of a gypsy." Marina Tsvetaeva.

Ani Tager, or for all friends and me - "Apples". She entered my life on a very cold day, immediately and forever. She arrived beautifully, in a whirlwind, extraordinarily delicate. There was a feeling that she was flying and the gifts pulled out of huge suitcases, she brought on her wings because such a slender girl couldn't lift all that by herself. But many years have passed, and Apples still lift the unlifted (not only from the physical world), with apparent ease... No one knows how she manages it! No - she is not Margarita from Bulgakov's story, but the “rjkljdkrjt “exists in Ani-jan. Just like humans, so much humanity in a person is rare. I was fortunate to meet Apples in my life. And I envy myself. But besides everything else, the gift of seeing and capturing one unique photo is given to her for the whole world. So enjoy the photos of Apples. They are all for you!

Letter from David Dector

I am sitting on the roof, watching the crows swim in the cold sky, and I think about my friend Aniko. She came and took us with Julia, a brave heart in the body of a beautiful girl, Ani Tager! Anyone who mistook it for prey was cut in half by the sword. Her arrows struck and doomed us to death or a boring life, but that's not what she chose us for. Once in Jerusalem, Julia and I almost had a fight with her, but she sat down and said: “You will not be able to quarrel with me!”. And so, it turned out. After the first time to Armenia, I was sitting in Dato's kitchen in Tbilisi, we were talking about Aniko, and a friend of Dato asked: “What do you think, is your friendship for a long time?” And I said: “Forever”. That was 16 years ago, and a lie has no legs, but not in this case. And what have we done, and what have we done with the fire that devours and burns the man and the woman? Nothing. We have become brother and sister, and there is no sister better and kinder than her. And to me, you are a stream, a swallow twinkling in the high sky, a star in a break in the clouds, axоти. Why do we need each other? Well, to get drunk together and shout down the wormhole-molemole! Fuck you, go to another plot!

Photographer: Ani Tager

Ani Tager's portrait: David Dector