Tako Robakidze is a documentary photographer based in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 2008, she received a bachelor’s degree in law from Tbilisi State University. Parallel to university studies, she was enrolled in a school of documentary photography called Sepia, where she continued her studies for five years. In 2015, she received her master's degree from Caucasus University's Graduate School of Journalism. Since 2010, Robakidze has been working as a freelance photographer and cooperating with Georgian and international NGOs to cover diverse social topics and document sociopolitical conditions and experiences of war in Georgia. In 2017, she received the Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellowship. In 2020, she was the recipient of the Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum Multimedia Lab Production Grant. That same year, she received a Goethe Institute Production Grant for her work about Georgian IDPs. Robakidze is also a recipient of the Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship, VII Academy Fellow and Mentorship Program, and the Alexia Award of Excellence.

Photo by Nata Sopromadze