Founded in 2010 in partnership with Les Rencontres d’Arles, the Tbilisi Photo Festival was born in an attempt to unveil the deep and fast changing realities palpable everywhere in Georgia by contributing to the rise of the local and regional photographic scene while bringing to Tbilisi the best of world photography.

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Since 2010 the Tbilisi Photo Festival has hosted the exhibitions of legends and stars of contemporary photography and has created a meaningfull platform to support the emerging artists.

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Twelve editions later, the Tbilisi Photo Festival firmly established Tbilisi as the capital of photography of the Caucasus by becoming the most important photo festival in the region and one of its major annual cultural events.

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Supporting the regional and local emerging photography scene has been TPF’s initial goal since its creation. By joining the Futures platform, the festival has got a chance to put a finger on the pulse of what makes now the emerging European photography - discover new names, new “photographic languages”, new topics, new approaches; and also to create new opportunities for the new talents – opportunities of visibility, professional improvement, international networking.