Interview with Levan Kakabadze

In Carpaccio Magazine Issue 11: “Flowers must be born every instant”, you’ll find this interview with the georgian photographer Levan Kakabadze:

Levan Kakabadze portrait by Maria Cerezo

Carpaccio Magazine: Tell us something about you.

Levan kakabadze: I was born in Batumi, in the Republic of Georgia, and grew up on the beach. During the 90s my country went through tough moments, the separation from the Soviet Union, a civil war and a lot of darkness in the streets. All that sadness, darkness and Black sea perspectives shaped me. I studied Directing in Batumi´s Shota Rustaveli University. During my university years I shot the Optic Nerve trilogy to obtain my diploma

Carpaccio Magazine: Where do you find inspiration?

Levan Kakabadze: I get inspired mostly in periods by friends, my family, by my girlfriend and by childhood. Things that I have experienced sometimes pop in my head while I am walking around with my camera and I try to express them as much as possible.

Carpaccio Magazine: What’s photography for you?

Levan Kakabadze: photography helps me view the world from different perspectives, it makes me see things in a different way, it changed my idea of sadness and my idea of love among others. Photography helps me communicate with people, objects, streets and nature and find positive things in those connections.

Carpaccio Magazine: Do you have any suggestions to help emerging artists?

Levan Kakabadze: Everything will come by itself if you are doing things the way you love to do them

Levan Kakabadze works have been published in Issue #11: “Flowers must be born every instant”,  Issue #10: “The impossible is possible, tonight” and “Levan Kakabadze“, book published by Atem Books publishing house.