NANA GAFAROVA: TALK AND PRESENTATION OF THE AUTHOR'S BOOK

Baku Street Photo Festival invites you to the meeting and book presentation of the photographer Nana Rahimova-Gafarova.

The book is an autobiographical collection of photographs taken over a 15-year period from 2004 to 2019. The author uses photography to express her understanding of how the divine manifests in humans. The juxtaposition of images, beloved poems, the light and the shadows captured in the photos is meant to evoke a feeling of deja vu, with the author serving as a conduit between the viewer and their own memories, between symbolism and life itself.

Nana Rahimova-Gafarova (b. 1983) took the dive into photography as soon as she stepped into the workshop of famous photographer Sanan Alasgarov in 2003. Although she worked in the banking sector for many years at the time, she continued taking photographs for herself and in the meantime exhibiting her works at various international and local exhibitions and festivals.…