NN:  Tbilisi Photo Festival (TPF) is the first international photography festival that has been established in Georgia back in 2010. 2 years after the Russian-Georgian war in 2008, we – a group of friends – wanted to use all possible means to communicate about Georgia and we have realized that putting Georgia on the international map of the contemporary photography and making of Tbilisi a hub of visual storytelling could be a way to gather in Georgian capital leading photographers and editors from all over the world and support the development of the medium in the country and the region. And it’s exactly what has happened. During 10 years of the festival we have accumulated a great experience of doing different scale photo projects, we have accumulated important knowledge, international and regional networks and finally have realized that we are ready to create the first institution entirely dedicated to contemporary image in its different forms – photography, video, new medias. That’s how Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum (TPMM) was born.   We have conceived it and it works as an alternative artistic and educational platform that uses the power of visual storytelling as a catalyst for important social and cultural changes that are needed in our society.  Through exhibitions and associated programs, the museum together with Tbilisi Photo Festival provides new educational and artistic opportunities to local, regional and international artists. TPMM remains one of the rarest organizations operating in art & culture field in South Caucasus region that regularly implements verity of programs aiming at professional and financial empowerment of emerging artists in wide region – from Georgia to Bangladesh passing by Ukraine, Turkey, Azerbaijan, India, Armenia, Thailand etc. For years we do support women photographers, video artists or curators, as well as representatives of ethnic and religious minorities etc.