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Irakli Dzneladze

Photographer

Irakli Dzneladze

Tragedy in the hotel Leogrand

A five-star hotel Leogrand was opened on June 7, 2015. 35 million USD was invested in the hotel. On November 24, 2017 at 8 p.m. the fire broke out in the hotel. Fire brigades were fighting with the fire for 4 hours. According to official information, 11 people died, among them 10 citizens of Georgia and 1 citizen of Iran. 21 were hospitalized. The victims all died from inhaling fumes at the 22-storey Leogrand Hotel and casino.
More than 100 people were evacuated from the hotel by emergency services.
Until nowadays no one is punished. Every victims family was given $50 000.
Hotel Leogrand was sold and will be open under the new name this Spring.

Irakli Dzneladze

Iraklii Dzneladze was born on November 11,1986, in Batumi, Georgia. After finishing the local theological gymnasium, he entered Rerich School of Arts, Fine art faculty in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.It was a place,where he had been interested in photography and journalism for the first time.Irakli's got profession of artist-restorer and returned to Batumi in 2004.He had been studying journalism at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University for 4 years.Since then photography became an integral part of his life.In 2012-2013 participated in the program Eurodyssee in Paris.For the one year, he had been working in the sphere of documentary photography. Irakli had 11 personal exhibitions and more than 25 group exhibitions.He is the author of the projects:“Historical photo:Inhabitants of Batumi”,"The Door".Also, Irakli Dzneladze is the Artists' Club F/11 founder in Georgia.One of the founders and manager of the Contemporary art space Batumi 2014-2019.