Sergo Edisherashvili is exhibiting his works at the Tbilisi History Museum in Tbilisi from 12-18 May 2016
as part of the Kolga Tbilisi Photo contest. The Kolga Tbilisi Photo exhibition
is a week-long event for local and international photographers. It is the
largest and most prestigious photo contest in Georgia.
Edisherashvili’s photography exhibition, First Personal in Georgia, is a
documentary perspective of current affairs in Georgia. In 1989 he was
editor-in-chief of the photo chronicles of Sakinform News Agency, which at the
time was the only prestigious and qualified union of photographers. Edisherashvili
frequently worked in Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Abkhazia. The exhibition
for the Kolga Tbilisi Photo is his first exhibition in Georgia.
Born in 1951 he graduated from the journalism department of the Moscow
State University. After graduation he became a news correspondent from Moscow
in Georgia. At 34 he was named in the top 100 World Leading Photojournalists.
MARTINA NICOLLS is the author of:-
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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