Biography
Thousands of my negatives are waiting for their hour. Sometimes I think not to shoot more, but dig up archives. I switched to digital photography 10 years ago, so those three years are more visible. I have to scan all valuable negatives in order to create my whole photo-story.My name is Yuri Mechitov.
I was born on May, 10, 1950 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
I began to shoot photographs when I was 8 years old. But I started to think about photography seriously much later.
My first exhibition was displayed in 1979 in Tbilisi. I started to work mainly in documentary genre, now I find I like to shoot people, I was happy to get into the art-world. It happened occasionally, but I believe that it was as it should be.
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