Saba Gorgodze is a Georgian documentary and street photographer. He was born on October 10, 1995 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Between 2012-2013 Gorgodze studied Photography at Ilia State University. In 2012 he was enrolled at Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University to study cinematography. Soon he left the university and started working on a personal photo project. During that time was born the first photo project idea titled “Imaginary World” – a project that documents the life of the Georgian youth. Gorgodze works with the meda platforms such as Calvert Journal, Vogue, Indigo and Chai Khana. He also pariticpates in local and international exhibitions.
When the pandemic started last year, the elderly who depended on Caritas and Catharsis for food, entertainment, and support were left without a lifeline.
Imaginary World aims to document the life of the Georgian youth. The project uses visual language to communicates the problems facing society and the political system. Most importantly it asks the question: What it is like to be young in Georgia?
For many men, the answer is bound up with tradition: toughness and bravery, independence and self-control. Being a man is loyalty, patriotism and strength, inner and physical. In a region long caught between the ebb and flow of competing empires – Russian, Ottoman, Persian and others – a man’s role is to fight, defend his homeland, and protect and provide for his family.
Saba Gorgodze documented the forced journey of Ukrainians seeking refugee from the city Lviv to Poland.