now developing · Tbilisi, Georgia
Salome Kiknadze
Editorial & Portrait Model
I am Salome. I model in Tbilisi and wherever the work takes me: editorials, lookbooks, campaigns, and one music video I am still not allowed to talk about. Photographers tend to book me for the quiet frames, the ones that need stillness instead of noise, and after eight years I can tell you that stillness is a skill you rehearse like anything else.
the contact sheet
work & exposures
Off set I am the one asking what film stock is loaded. I shoot my own rolls on a dented Zenit that belonged to my grandfather, and on Sundays I print in a rented darkroom near the river. Standing on both sides of the camera has made me better at my job: I know exactly what the person behind the lens is waiting for, because I have stood there waiting for it too.
the test strip
grade 3 · f/8 · the keeper is 16s
Every good print starts as a strip of guesses. Five exposures, one keeper: most days that ratio holds for photographs and for modelling both.
notes from the red light
18 May 2026 · 4 min read
Printing My First Solo Edit
Twelve frames, one rented darkroom, and the discovery that the hardest part of printing is deciding what deserves the paper.
9 February 2026 · 4 min read
One Roll in Old Tbilisi
Thirty-six frames, one afternoon, no reshoots. What a single roll of film teaches you that a thousand phone photos will not.
30 November 2025 · 3 min read
Why I Still Shoot Film
It is not nostalgia. It is that a model who prints her own pictures reads light differently, and clients can tell.
let us make something that keeps
Editorial & Portrait Model, based in Tbilisi, Georgia and available for editorials, campaigns and long unhurried sittings. For bookings and enquiries, write to the studio.
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