Fotografia Gallery presents the group exhibition: SINGULAR VISIONS
The exhibition serves as an introduction to the gallery’s newly represented artists, showcasing distinct photographic works, each shaped by its own visual language and sensibility.
Rather than merging into a single narrative, these sets of images maintain their individuality.
Their physical proximity leaves the viewer contemplating how each artist uniquely sees, interprets, and approaches their medium on their own terms.
TONY HANMER
Tony Hanmer has been a dedicated photographer since the age of 11. Of Welsh and English heritage, Hanmer spent formative years in Rhodesia (1971–77) and Canada (1977–89), and has called Georgia, particularly the region of Svaneti, home since 1999.
Deeply inspired by the natural world, Hanmer is drawn to landscapes, wildlife, and the dynamic interplay between growth, decay, order, and chaos. Human culture also features prominently in his work. Hanmer’s creative pursuits extend beyond photography to include writing, graphic and logo design, and fractal programming.
Mentored in 1990–91 by UK photographer Nick Wilcox-Brown, Hanmer gained both technical skill and artistic direction. Over the years, Hanmer has explored experimental techniques such as projected photograms and photocopier art, with solargraphy still on the horizon.
While not a photojournalist at heart, Hanmer has written and photographed a weekly article for Georgia Today since 2011.
Hanmer’s natural mode is not work, but play. He shoots largely for his own pleasure and to point to a Creator.
ELENE GLONTI
Elene Glonti is a Georgian multimedia artist and photographer based in Tbilisi. Her work navigates the emotional topography of loneliness, absence, and post-Soviet disorientation, tracing fragile threads of memory, loss, and resilience in places marked by conflict, displacement, or quiet decay.
A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (NYC), Elene works across photography, video, and documentary film. Her series No More Bazaar documents the slow disappearance of traditional marketplaces in Georgia’s regions, while The Fading Gaze offers an intimate portrait of old age and social isolation.
Elene’s images are rooted in empathy and close observation, often portraying those who exist on the periphery — spatially, historically, or emotionally. She works between Georgia and abroad, using photography as a language to engage with the world’s overlooked margins.
She is the founder of Caucasian Art Circle, a non-formal art space in Tbilisi dedicated to collective learning and creation. Her work has been exhibited in Gori, Tbilisi, and internationally.
SOPHO PEPANASHVILI
Sopho Pepanashvili, born in 1988, is a Georgian artist currently living in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her work spans several fields: illustration and graphic design, photography, music, and handicrafts.
She studied painting at the Iakob Nikoladze College of Arts, after which she continued her studies at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Faculty of Media Arts. Currently, her main activities are illustration and design, although photography has always been one of her passions.
She began taking photos during her student days. Her photos are mainly inspired by nature; some focus on color harmony, while other works are documentary black-and-white photos capturing special moments from everyday life.
EMILY LUSH
Emily Lush is originally from Brisbane, Australia, and has been based in Georgia since 2020. A writer by trade, she came to photography through her travel blog, Wander-Lush—now the leading English-language resource for travel in Georgia and the South Caucasus.
What began as a documentary companion to her writing has since evolved into a distinct visual practice rooted in observation and quiet storytelling. Her work explores themes of nostalgia, transience, and place, with a particular sensitivity to the layered histories embedded in urban spaces.
Often drawn to the overlooked or forgotten, Emily uses photography as a means of recording fleeting scenes and architectural echoes before they disappear.
