Georgia’s top photo contest reveals Best Photo of the Year
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The 14th edition of the Kolga Award, the biggest and most prestigious photo contest in Georgia, is about to begin.
Georgia’s capital city Tbilisi will host the Kolga Award 2015 from May 1-7 in several exhibtions.
Photographers from about 40 countries have applied to the contest and more than 9,000 photos will fight for the title of Best Photo of the Year.
Photos will be split among five categories: Documentary Series, Reportage, Conceptual Photo Project, One Shot and Geocell Mobile Photo, and winners of each category will be awarded a share of $6,000 USD.
The Kolga Award is part of the annual Kolga Tbilisi Photo contest, which has been held locally since 2001.
Organisers of the Kolga Tbilisi Photo contest said this year an "unprecedented number” of participants from different countries had expressed their desire to participate in the contest.
"The main goal of the award is to link international photography to Georgia and to local photography. The announcement of the Photo Award worldwide – in Europe as well as in the United States – intends to foster its international position,” organisers of the Kolga Tbilisi Photo contest said.
More than ten exhibitions will be held during the photo contest week.
Six exhibitions will be held tomorrow, On May 2.
·Beyond the Common by the Students of the University of Applied Science and Arts, Dortmund
·Urban Maze by Galerie Koppelmann
·Stories from America- best photos of four American photographers.
·The installation - Umbrella Chronicles V by Michael Vincent Manalo
Exhibitions on May 3
·No Compromise by Brian Griffin
·The best of 2014 by National Geographic Georgia
·Unknown Pics by Guram Tikanadze
Exhibition on May 4-5
·Spring Uprising 11 by Kim Badawi
·The smell of milk and Poetry by Lia Liqokeli
In recent years, the best photos of the contest were exhibited at the Lichtblick Gallery in Cologne, Germany, and were also shown as an installation in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv and in Prague photo meetings.
Furthermore, within the Kolga Tbilisi Photo contest 2015, several international and local exhibitions will be held, as will a series of workshops, lectures and portfolio reviews delivered by European and American photographers, curators and art critics.
Some of the best photos by local and foreign photographers will be unveiled at the annual Kolga Tbilisi Photo contest, starting in Georgia's capital tomorrow.
Some of the most fascinating international photo projects, award-winning photographers and local talent will make this year’s Kolga Tbilisi Photo week a major event starting this Friday.
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