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:
2025 — «Ortachala la Triennale», Tbilisi, Georgia
2025 — «Utopia» group exhibition with Object Community, curator Anastasia Krutikova, Tbilisi, Georgia
2025 — «Hidden in front of your eyes» secret street exhibition, Tbilisi, Georgia
2025 — «Contacts and connections», Loosenart, Rome, Italy
2024 — «Intersections», Sarajevo Photography Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2024 — «Far from home. Vol.1», The Human Festival, curator Olga Sharlat, 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
Shortlisted:
2025 — Kolga Tbilisi Photo
Awards & mentions:
2024 — honorable mention 2024 — Sarajevo Photography Festival
Publications:
2025 — Edge of Humanity
2025 — Safelight Paper
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 — «How to make a zine» workshop, Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 — Art-laboratory «White lake», Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 — curator (with art group «Particles») of the group exhibition «Particles», Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 — co-curator (with art group «Particles») of the group exhibition «White», Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 — Artist-talk as part of the festival «The human», Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 — Laboratory «Korney», Voronezh, Russia
Email: Lolitachapp@gmail.com