Call for South Caucasian women photographers offers art residency
The programme will select seven creatives working in photography and visual art for the residency starting in April. Photo via Tbilisi Photo Festival.
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Women photographers from across the South Caucasus will benefit from an art residency programme of Tbilisi Photo Festival and the Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum (TPMM), with organisers also offering a mentorship platform and a production grant for those selected.
Launched to pick seven photographers and visual artists and funded by Creative Europe's MagiC Carpets platform, the residency is open for creatives from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia who will receive lectures by "international artists and curators", a summary for the project says.
Offering production grants worth €700 for long-term artistic projects, the programme is mentored by Newsha Tavakolian of Magnum Photos and will run for six months starting in April. It comes as MagiC Carpets' partnership with TPMM - initiated in 2018 - aiming to extend the museum's Multimedia Lab Production grant programme into a residency.
Throughout individual online tutorials, taking place once a month, the mentor of the program will assist grantees in the development of their artistic projects, helping them to define an original visual language and develop or finalize their photo/video project
- programme organisers
Selected by a Tbilisi Photo Festival artistic committee, the TPMM and the mentor of the programme, participants will work on their projects with the goal of showcasing "a minimum of 50 % of new visuals" in their final edits as a result of the mentorship, a description for the residency notes.
The multidisciplinary creatives sought for submissions will be selected from both documentary and conceptual visual projects, with organisers seeking to "compensate for the shortage of story-telling existing in modern society by enhancing cultural accessibility, cultural activism and participation".
Aspiring participants have April 11 as the deadline for their submissions, with further details on the residency offer available here.
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