Lolita Chaprak (1997) — visual artist and documentary photographer. She was born in Taganrog — a small city, located in the south of Russia. She currently lives in Tbilisi.  Lolita works with documentary photography and print forms. In her projects, she explores complex and painful topics such as Stalinist repressions, the consequences of conflicts, and death. Her work is focused on storytelling, where personal and social upheavals, as well as changes in life, take center stage. For her, photography is a means of communicating with the world and an opportunity to make sense of the heavy and tragic events that shape our reality. Since the end of spring 2024, she has been a member of the art group «Particles».

Education:

2023–2024 — Nizina, project photography laboratory

2021-2022 — direction «Documentary photography and photojournalism», School of modern photography Docdocdoc

Additional Workshops and Courses:

2024 — Add to make art happen, Online Course by Nadya Sheremetova

2024 — Color, Online Course by Vladimir Seleznev

Personal exhibitions:

2024 — «1937», tmp space, Batumi, Georgia

2024 — «1937», Itaka, Tbilisi, Georgia

Group exhibitions:

2024 — «Intersections», Sarajevo Photography Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina

2024 — «Far from home. Vol.1», The Human Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia  

Exhibitions with the art group «Particles»:

2024 — «Particles», Auditoria, Tbilisi, Georgia

2024 — «White», Okro, Tbilisi, Georgia

2024 — «White: The beginning|The end», tmp space, Batumi, Georgia

Awards & mentions:

2024 — honorable mention 2024 — Sarajevo Photography Festival

Publications:

2024 — Shutter Hub

2024 — F-stop Magazine

Portfolio-reviews:

2024 — Otar Karalashvili & Andreas Oetker-Kast, as part of Kolga Tbilisi Photo

2024 — Nadya Sheremetova

Public speaking and other experience:

2024 — Artist-talk as part of the festival «The human», Tbilisi, Georgia

2024 — Laboratory «Korney», Voronezh, Russia

Email: Lolitachapp@gmail.com