Ehtiram Jabi

Ehtiram Jabi, 1996, is a fine art photographer born and raised in Baku.
In his early youth he got interested in art and predominantly in photography. His participation in Yarat Summer School with Magnum Photography in 2014 (lecturers Thomaz Dworzak and Chien-Chi Chang) and photographer David Montgomery left a great impact on his perception of photography, also gave impetus to his professional development in this medium of art. He has been invited as a speaker and participant to the exhibition "Friendship of the Peoples" held in 2015 in Moscow, and in the same year received a prize from Azerbaijan Photographers Union Award "Hope" as a successfully rising photographer. Working as a freelance photo-journalist he partnered with Reuters, ANN, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service, Chai Khana and worked as a full state photographer in and local news portals. Additionally, his series called “On the top”, “White swan”, “Veterans” gained public attention and were released in leading local portals. In 2017, he successfully finished work on his first full-fledged project "Polio"- photobook.
Besides, as a visual artist, also being one of the YARAT's resident artists, he collaborated with ARTIM Project Space and held exhibitions on different socia...

2018 Group exhibition “Unthought Known” with works by YARAT residents Hiba Farhat (USA/Lebanon), Clara Jo (USA/ Germany) at ARTIM Project Space

2018 Group exhibition “’Sick Love Nature” with works by YARAT residents Ozan Atalan (Turkey), Ilkin Huseynov (Azerbaijan) at ARTIM Project Space

2017 “Polio” project at Baltic biennale of photography, Kaliningrad, Russia

2017 "Breaking the Ice" group exhibition with MyAngle during Kolga Photo Festival 2017

2017 “Three Angles” group exhibition with MyAngle at Contemporary Art Space Batumi, Georgia

2016 “To Be Surprised, To Surprise’’ group exhibition at the ARTIM Project Space, Baku, Azerbaijan

2015 Tbilisi Photo Festival/ group exhibition with MyAngle, Tbilisi, Georgia

2015 International Exhibition “Friendship of nations”, Moscow, Russia (guest speaker)

2015 Group Exhibition “Azerbaijan Art Through the Photographer”, Baku, Azerbaijan