A selection of photographs by Italian alpinist and photographer Vittorio Sella has been published on the website of the National Archives of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia.

The collection features images captured by Vittorio Sella during his travels throughout Georgia in 1889, 1890, and 1896. The standard, panoramic, and stereoscopic photographs depict the peaks, glaciers, valleys, and villages of Svaneti. Among the highlights are images of Mount Gistola, Tetnuldi, Ushba, Elbrus, and Lahili, as well as views of Tbilisi, Mtskheta, and Mestia and the villages of Ushguli, Mazeri, Mulakhi, Mujali, Adishi, and Gebi. Additionally, ethnographic portraits of the local populations of Svaneti and Racha were taken with Sella's camera.

Sella’s works were discovered in Italy during the 1980s by Georgian translator and director Rezo Tabukashvili, who donated part of the photographs to the National Archives of Georgia in 1983. The collection was further expanded in 2018 with additional photographs donated to the archives by Rezo Tabukashvili’s son, Lasha Tabukashvili.

The online collection includes about 80 photographs and is accessible at the following link: https://archive.gov.ge/ge/vitorio-selas-kolektsia-1 .