In 2018 Tbilisi Photo Festival is eager to present a retrospective exhibition featuring a century of photographic images in Georgia. Elementary Particles: Epigraphs from Georgian Photography unites forty works of Georgian photographers from the Soviet and Post-Soviet periods, from the beginning of XX century till XXI.

Curators Nestan Nijaradze, Guram Tsibakhashvili and Natia Bukia, chose eleven artists, who before took part in Tbilisi Art Fair exhibition “Into the reality and beyond”. Artists from different generation show the fragments of the complex and rich history of Georgian photography.

Exhibition shows such rare artworks as Gigo Gabashvili’s photo series from the beginning of XX century, which were discovered just in the beginning of 2000’s .

Also, Rezo Kezeli’s photos from 50s and 60s, which were identified by curator Guram Tsibakhashvili, after 10 years from discovering unknown negatives, in 2000s.

Gigo Gabashvili, Shalva Alkhanaidze, Rezo Kezeli, Guram Tikanadze, Boris Shavardian, Guram Tsibakhashvili, Natela Grigalashvili, Beso Uznadze, Nata Sophromadze, David Meskhi, Rita Khachaturian.