Tbilisi Photo Festival

Member from 2021 until 2021. Located in Tbilisi, Georgia, Georgia

Tbilisi Photo Festival

Member from 2021 until 2021.Located in Tbilisi, Georgia, Georgia

Founded in 2010 in partnership with Les Rencontres d’Arles, the Tbilisi Photo Festival was born in an attempt to unveil the deep and fast changing realities palpable everywhere in Georgia by contributing to the rise of the local and regional photographic scene while bringing to Tbilisi the best of world photography. Since 2010 the Tbilisi Photo Festival has hosted the exhibitions of legends and stars of contemporary photography and has created a meaningful platform to support the emerging artists. Twelve editions later, the Tbilisi Photo Festival firmly established Tbilisi as the capital of photography of the Caucasus by becoming the most important photo festival in the region and one of its major annual cultural events.

Nominations

2021

By nominating Romain Bagnard, Céline Croze, Julie Glassberg and Eleni Onasoglu for Futures talents 2021, TPF unveils the group of emerging European photographers and their works with a strong visual identity that result from the capacities to develop long-term personal projects throughout deep researches to define an individual photographic writing, to build a coherence between the content and the shape the photo project is supposed to take in its final version.

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Between Celine Croze ’s SQEVNV that focuses on social issues and human bodies as territories; Julie Glassberg’s Dekotora - a saga of misunderstood subculture of heavily decorated trucks in Japan; Aphros by Roman Bagnard who brings to surface the opaque signs of a primitive ephemeral urban alphabet and Eleni Onasoglu’s Hippocampus – a visual diary, a coded memory map that leads to an inner journey to explore the time and the emotions – TPF gives to discover 4 artists with very different photographic writings who re-invent their individual visual codes, overcome their vulnerability and transgress the reality they look at into the images that attract by their multilayerness of meanings and sensuality.

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Text by Nestan Nijaradze