Description

Elene Glonti’s photography project No More Bazaar explores the deep social and cultural loss caused by the decline of Georgia’s traditional marketplaces. For centuries, bazaars were spaces where commerce intertwined with conversation, news-sharing, and cross-cultural exchange. Through his lens, Glonti documents how their disappearance fuels social alienation, widens class divides, and diminishes interaction between Georgians and ethnic minorities. No More Bazaar is both a visual archive and a social commentary on how modern retail and self-service culture are replacing centuries-old traditions of communal life.

 

Title: No more bazaar
Photographer: Elene Glonti
Size: A2
Paper: Matte

 

Elene Glonti is a Georgian multimedia artist and photographer based in Tbilisi. She explores themes of loneliness, absence, and post-Soviet disorientation. Her work captures memory, loss, and resilience in places marked by conflict, displacement, and decay.

A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in New York, Elene works in photography, video, and documentary film. Her images focus on people living at the margins – spatially, historically, and emotionally. She works between Georgia and abroad, using photography to document overlooked communities and stories.

Elene is the founder of the Caucasian Art Circle, a non-formal art space in Tbilisi for collective learning and creation. Her work has been exhibited in Gori, Tbilisi, and internationally.