David Meskhi

David Meskhi is a photographer based in Berlin, Germany.

Early life and education

Meskhi was born in 1979 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
After gaining a master's degree in hydro ecology, he decided to change his profession entirely and turned to art. He received an academic degree in photojournalism from the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film State University in Tbilisi.

Career

Since 2004, Meskhi has been working as a photographer and photojournalist for several magazines, and his artwork has been exhibited in Austria, France, Georgia, Germany, Israel, Russia and the United Kingdom.
In 2008, Meskhi was invited to photograph the Georgian Olympic team.
Between 2013 and 2015, he co-directed a documentary When the Earth Seems to Be Light with Salome Machaidze and Tamuna Karumidze, which is based on his photographs.