Tbilisi prepares for week-long international photo festival
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Georgia’s capital Tbilisi is gearing up to host the sixth edition of the annual international Tbilisi Photo Festival offering the "most provocative and diverse programme yet”.
For one week beginning September 25, the Festival will feature exhibitions and talks on images and subjects that focus on ground-breaking ways on telling and perceiving stories.
Some of the highlights of the event include photo exhibitions on the subject of war, social issues and women’s influence on photography.
Organisers chose World War II as the principal theme of the 2015 edition to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the conflict however the exhibitions will also portray a range of other topics and themes.
Tbilisi Night of Photography is a Festival highlight that exhibits a range of images from around the world on big screens in Old Tbilisi districts. Photo from Tbilisi Photo Festival/Facebook.
Looking ahead organisers said they hoped the Tbilisi Photo Festival would become an international event that attracted participants and visitors from Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
This year’s Festival will present a diverse programme that includes a photo report on the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe presented by #DYSTURB, a group of French photo journalists who will also hold a public talk on photo journalism at Frontline Club Georgia.
Antoine D’Agata, a French photographer of Magnum Photos, will present an outdoor exposition of photographs of Tbilisi strip-dancers in a project titled Eclipse, while another Magnum reporter Alex Majoli will exhibit his works from "both sides of the frontline” of the 2008 Russia-Georgia War.
The highlight of the Festival, Tbilisi Night of Photography, will display some of the best images from around the world on large screens in Old Tbilisi streets along the Abanotubani (sulphur baths district) and Gudiashvili Square on Saturday, September 26.
The 2015 Tbilisi Photo Festival will conclude on October 1.
The full program of the event can be found on the official project website here, while a map of the Night of Photography exhibitions and locations can be viewed here.
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