Georgian crisis: photojournalist Sean Smith reports

August 17: Russian soldiers stop and search cars in Gori Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian

August 15: People queue for food being given out by a church in Gori. Russian troops allowed food aid to be brought in through their lines Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian

August 16: An elderly woman crosses a checkpoint run by Russian soldiers on the road between Tbilisi and Gori Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian

August 16: Giorgi Baramidze, the deputy prime minister of Georgia, stands at a railway bridge destroyed by Russian soldiers on the main railway line between eastern and western Georgia near Kaspi Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian

August 16: A group of displaced people wait for a lift outside Gori Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian

August 16: A group of displaced people carrying a Georgian flag walk along the road to Tbilisi Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian

August 17: Ossetian militia on an armoured vehicle in the town of Akhalgori Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian

August 19: Tenguiz Teudorashvili rests on a bed after being visited by medical staff. His house in Kabri, northern Georgia, was wrecked in an attack Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian

August 20: The British foreign secretary, David Miliband, visits a refugee camp outside Tbilisi for Georgians who have fled the South Ossetia conflict zone Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian

August 20: Georgians from the South Ossetia conflict zone watch television in a refugee camp outside Tbilisi Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian

August 21: Russian troops listen to a victory concert in Tskhinvali Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian

August 21: A building in Tskhinvali, that was badly damaged by bombing during fighting between Russia and Georgia Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian

August 21: A South Ossetian millitiaman stands with residents by a bomb-damaged building in Tskhinvali Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian

August 22: A woman hangs up washing in a bombed-out building in Tskhinvali Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian