Culture & Education

Even today, after 20 years drug‑free, I can still find myself at the central station

At age 14, Tali Razker began using hard drugs, and over four years she went through more than ten rehabilitation attempts until she reached a point where she could no longer live with drugs and without drugs. Ahead of her performance at Pachea Koche, she publicly reveals those years for the first time, recounting how her mother waited for her to choose to get clean ("women end up in prostitution, men in prison. It’s a miracle I managed to stop it before it happened") — and how photography helped her build a new life, become an artist and a mother, and, through the camera, get closer to her daughter.