Yuri Mechitov was born on May, 10, 1950 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
He began to shoot photographs when he was 8 years old. But started to think about photography seriously much later.
His first exhibition was displayed in 1979 in Tbilisi. started to work mainly in documentary genre, now he finds that he like to shoot people, he was happy to get into the art-world. It happened occasionally, but he believes that it was as it should be.