The third edition of the "Tbilisi Photo Festival" opens tomorrow and last until June 4. Curated by Lionel Charrier and Nestan Nijaradze, the festival will present an eclectic selection of photography from across the world.

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This year, the Tbilisi Photo Festival has decided to devote a large space for the exhibition of the Syrian uprising – a unique endeavour, given the government’s almost total blackout on allowing media access. With thousands killed so far, the world needs to bear witness to this un...

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Telling the truth in contemporary Iran is not easy but there still exists an abiding will to question the written assumptions, shake the foundations of the regime and knock down the walls and false pretences. Photography in Iran, however, is a complicated business: it becomes, ...

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Stanley Greene’s celebrated body of work has often taken him to the Caucasus. As the guest of honour of the third Tbilisi Photo Festival, we are especially pleased that the American photo-journalist will be present for the first exhibition of his work on the Caucasus featuring ...

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The world of Natela Grigalashvili, a Georgian photographer, is the village of her birth. There, she learned her native Georgian, a language which she uses to infuse this unique series of pictures. Dawn, sky, "jigari" ("innards"), "sheni chiri me" ("I love you so much, you ...

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What do we know of the Black Sea? It seems to be shrouded in obscurity by its very name but this ancient waterway of civilisations is actually a very colourful place as the remarkable collection of images focusing upon the Black Sea from roughly a dozen photographers will il...

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After the success of last year’s exhibition of the photographs from the collection of the nineteenth-century photographer, Dimitry Ermakov, the Tbilisi Photo Festival is pleased to continue uncovering Georgia’s rich photographic heritage. This year, the Festival has orga...

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Improvising with materials close at hand, Seat Assignment consists of photographs, video, and digital images all made while in flight using only a camera phone. The project began spontaneously on a flight in March 2010 and is ongoing. At present, over 2500 ...

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«Theaters» is an extensive project undertaken in 2006 by Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre, born respectively in 1981 and 1987. In 2005, the French duo came across their first abandoned American movie theater when they started working on the ruins of Detroit. Through «Theaters», ...

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For the past fifty years, the Rolling Stones have made people dream. Through the images of a handful of great photographers, the Galerie de l’Instant pays tribute to the group’s half-century of rocking.

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Love and photography. Quite a long subject. Initially, photography is an extension of love mostly because we capture what we love. It is the perfect tool to extend and reach out beyond the emotion and single out the people, object or places that we love. Who doesn't have a photograph, somewhe...

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On May 22 Sotheby’s London held an auction of items from the Gunter Sachs collection. The sale of this avant-garde collection reached an impressive £35.6 million with 90% of the lots sold. Here are the 10 photographs that received the highest bids.

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This image of Samuel Bollendorff will be visible on the streets of Paris on May 29th. Inimaginable is an association that provides support and financing for photography projects that concern human rights and discrimination. Too many reports today are never published du...

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On May 24, the Yancey Richardson Gallery in Chelsea opened an exhibit of new work by Lisa Kereszi. The exhibition, the fourth of Kereszi’s work at the Gallery, is made up of color prints of landscapes and interiors that visually and emotionally relate to the title “The Party’s Ove...

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The work of the photographer Thomas Bilanges is currently on display at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris. Produced in 2006, his series Vis-à-Vie invites the viewer to take a fresh look at the museum.
A museum guard welcomes me with a smile. “Ah, so you’re going to see me then?” Just imagine...

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Mac Folkes has a vision and a voice and in the creation of The Slant he has made an artifact that defines the zeitgeist. Though it is a pure piece of printed matter it is neither book nor magazine nor journal nor zine. It is a work of art unto itself that is as much a publication as a piece of...

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