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3 years ago
Work of Eugenie and Olga Orlay de Karwa at the Literature Museum
The Literature Museum hosts the photo exhibition of Olga and Eugenie Orlay de Karwa from June 18th to June 25th.
The work of sister photographers, Eugenie and Olga Orlay de Karwa, who operated a photographic studio for five years in the late 1870s in Tiflis and later in Milan and Rome, has not seen the light for a long period of time.
The photo exhibition of Eugenie and Olga Orlay de Karwas is organized for the first time and features reproductions and original photographs taken both in Georgia and abroad.
Finding women photographers and inscribing their names in history is an important issue both in countries where photography was first conceived and developed, as well as in cultures where the transmission and establishment of this discipline happened at a fairly early stage.
The exhibition is part of the ongoing academic research of the Moving Archives, which aims to find female photographers on the periphery of official histories.
The exhibition showcases photographs from the following collections:
- The National Archives of Georgia
- Giorgi Leonidze State Museum of Literature
- Shota Gujabidze’s private collection
- Moving Archive’s collection
- ARCHIVIO DI STATO DI MILANO (Milan)
- CIVICO ARCHIVIO FOTOGRAFICO (Milan)
The research and the exhibition are supported by the Women's Fund in Georgia.