I’m a photographer, illustrator, and occasional writer.

Before switching to writing and illustrating short stories and children’s books, I spent years working as a journalist and documentary photographer. I have collaborated with several online and printed periodicals such as Liberali and EurasiaNet. My photo works have appeared in The Guardian, The Washington Post, L’actualité, National Geographic Traveler etc. I have also taught a graduate-level Visual Storytelling course at the Caucasus School of Journalism and Management in Tbilisi, Georgia.

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You can reach me at bardzima@gmail.com.

Exhibitions:

• The Unpromised Land: The Meskhetians’ Long Journey Home. Tbilisi, Georgia. 2011
• The Laughs and Forgetting (L.A.F.) Project: The Internally Displaced of Georgia. Prague, Czech Republic & Tbilisi, Georgia. 2011
  
• Svaneti: From Tradition to Modernity. Berlin, Germany. 2012

Photo books:

• The Unpromised Land. 2012
• Vashlovani National Park. 2012

Other

• Not One Moment, but Years – interview for the New York Times Lens Blog.