‘I’m not that woman any more. I am stronger’: Tinatin Jabanashvili’s best phone picture

Since taking this self-portrait, the photographer says her life has been transformed by motherhood

When Tinatin Jabanashvili began studying law in her home town of Tbilisi, Georgia, she left her passions of dancing and acting behind. Photography, she says, took their place; a way to express her feelings, and how she saw the world, without words.

Having completed her master's, she now works in HR in the parliament of Georgia. My work is very interesting, but very corporate. My art is what fills me with freedom." Her biggest passion, however, arrived six months ago, in the form of a little girl called Elene. She's my first child, and has become my biggest and best inspiration. Before, it was people, streets, shadows and sunshine, but now I'm at home raising my child I'm grateful for every minute, for all the new things she's doing," she says.