Varlam Gengiuri was born in 1935.

He was 13, when he got into his neighbor’s photo lab, and soon he got interested into photography. He was a schoolboy, when he shot his first photos.

From 1960 he works for different printed media. He started to work for “Akhalgazrda Komunisti” newspaper. Later he worked as a photo reporter for the following newspapers: “Soplis Tskhovreba”, “Komunisti”, and “Sakartvelos Respublika”.

Due to the love for sport he became sports photographer. This love dates back from the time when he was doing cycling. But he is a reporter, who works in different genres as well.

In 1971, at the Photo Competition for Sports Photography of the Republic of Georgia, Varlam Gengiuri’s photo series won the first prize. In 1999 the president of Georgia rewarded him with the Order of Honor.

Varlam Gengiuri’s camera lens caught several events in sport as well as social and political life of the Soviet and independent Georgia.

In this year Varlam Gengiuri was awarded to Alexander Roinishvili honorary prize for the outstanding merits in the development of Georgian photography