PHOTOGRAPHY: Mariam Amurvelashvili

(lensculture.com) Amurvelashvili is a freelance photographer and member of the online platform and collective, Georgianphotographers.com. Originally trained in philology, mastering the German language and literature, Amurvelashvili began working as a staff photographer for the daily Georgian newspaper 24 Hours in 2002 and for UNICEF’s Georgia office in 2004. Her work has been exhibited in Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Switzerland. Her photographs have also been selected for the 2010 Angkor Photo Festival, the Tbilisi Photo Festival, the 2011 Chobi Mela Festival, the 2012 Aleppo International Photo Festival, and les Rencontres d’Arles. In 2010, Amurvelashvili was selected to participate in a young photographers’ artist-in-residence program and master class in Niort, France, and in 2011 was shortlisted for the Lucie Foundation Scholarship. In 2008, Amurvelashvili won first prize in KARAT Coalition’s photo competition and exhibition, “Through Their Eyes, Through Ours.” In 2013 she received OSF (Open society Foundation) documentary photography grant. 2014 her work "puzzles of us" was selected for Angkor photo festival. Her first book "Endless Questions" will be published by "Damiani" in March 2016.

Gallery: Endless Questions by Mariam Amurvelashvili
Book: Mariam Amurvelashvili: Endless Questions
Gallery: Another memory by Mariam Amurvelashvili
Georgia’s Old Prisons Were Sites of Documentary Photography, But New Prisons Are Sites of Video, Rape, Beatings and Scandal. By Mariam Amurvelashvili [prisonphotography.org]
Khevsureti. By Mariam Amurvelashvili [oseweb]
Endless Questions Mariam Amurvelashvili [issuu.com]
For Georgian photographer Mariam Amurvelashvili, a camera is the means of self-expression. She considers her camera to be an inseparable part of her body and mind, capable of constructing a chronology and accommodating everything of significance to her in one frame. Endless Questions is not only a story about children, narrated by a mother with love. In 70 photos, Amurvelashvili gives us an intimate look at the world of brother and sister.
Mariam Amurvelashvili [jmcolberg.com]
Mariam Amurvelashvili - Endless questions [josefchladek.com]
"For Georgian photographer Mariam Amurvelashvili, a camera is the means of self-expression. She considers her camera to be an inseparable part of her body and mind, capable of constructing a chronology and accommodating everything of significance to her in one frame. Endless Questions is not only a story about children, narrated by a mother with love. In 70 photos, Amurvelashvili gives us an intimate look at the world of brother and sister. Composed portraits of the children are accompanied by candid photos of them in the Giorgian landscape. Drawings by Amurvelashvili’s daughter are interspersed among the photographs, giving the book the feeling of a family album."

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