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2014 Kolga Tbilisi Photo Exhibitions at the Tbilisi History Museum: farmers, faith and festivals



As part of the week-long 2014 Kolga Tbilisi Photo Awards, on Friday May 2 four photography exhibitions were held in the “Karvasla” Tbilisi History Museum in the Old City. The free exhibition attracted a large audience in the three storey museum.





Eastreet, on the ground level, displayed selected works of street photography of East Europe. From an open call for photos, the curators received over 4,000 that were culled for the exhibition. All photos showed “spontaneous, unique, and non-posing” individuals in street scenes as party of everyday life.

Georgia of 80-90 Years by Jemal Kasradze (1945 - ) presented documentary black and white photography from his years as a newspaper photo-journalist. He won the 2014 Alexander Roinashvili Prize for his contribution to Georgian current events and sports photography.




Belief by Natan Dvir and Violence and Catharsis by Claudio Cambon were displayed in one hall. The Belief exhibits by Dvir (1972 - ), an Israeli photographer based in New York, were “Stories on Faith” that showed a diverse range of faith-based photography from various religions. Dvir’s colour photographs showed religious ceremonies, community events, and individual meditations, some serene and some fanatical. Violence and Catharsis by Cambon, professor of photography at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh, featured predominantly vivid colour photos from Bangladesh and India in 2011-12, showing mainstream and eccentric festivals and rituals – community events that bring people together and bind them through unique cultural practices. He won the 2014 LensCulture Portrait Award.



Karczebs and Actors by Adam Panczuk, a Warsaw-based photographer, were extraordinarily black and white photographs of people in unusal scenarios: farmers from Karczeby, as well as amateur actors from a local folk theatre “Czeladonka” in Lubenka near the border between Poland and Belarus. The actors are also farmers.

http://www.kolga.ge/en/#/exhibitions

MARTINA NICOLLSis an international aid and development consultant, and the authorof:- Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom(2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).
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