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Photo Story: Molokans in Armenia (ZCJKDCL001) |
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Photo Story by: Ruben Mangasaryan
Date: 14 Nov, 1999
Molokans are ethnic Russians and Christian sectarians. In Armenia they live in Fioletovo village, which looks like a typical village in central Russia: birches, Russian houses, golden-haired children running around with everybody speaking Russian. The villagers bake bread in old-fashioned Russian ovens, whip cream and make butter in pakhtalkas (traditional Russian tools to churn butter), make sauerkraut and plough with horses. Their main trade is cabbage and they are busy with it the whole year. Cabbage is gathered in autumn and sold in winter. There is only one telephone for the whole village and less than a dozen of TV sets. Article is available.
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MerhaBarev
By PatkerPhoto:Ruben Mangasaryan, German Avagyan, Anahit Hayrapetyan, Karen Mirzoyan, Nelli Shishmanyan.
NarPhotos: Ozcan Yurdalan,Mehmet Kacmaz,Serra Akcan,Tolga Sezgin, Kerem Uzel.
MerhaBarev is a unique photo-bridge between Armenia and Turkey, two neighboring countries with no diplomatic relations and a border remained closed for more than 80 years.
This project was created in 2006, when five Armenian photojournalists from Patker photo agency shot Istanbul during a week, and the same did five Turkish photojournalists from Nar photo agency in Yerevan.
MerhaBarev is a combined greeting in two languages:Turkish - "merhaba" and Armenian - "barev". MerhaBarev is indeed the first visual greeting between the two countries, which are separated not only by the sharp wire on the border, built during the Soviet Union period, but by the political and historical problems.
Using the black and white language of the photography, photojournalists narrated about Istanbul and Yerevan, their cultures, traditions, every-day life and people.
The project was presented as a number of exhibitions in Armenia (Yerevan, Gumri) and Turkey (Istanbul, Ankara, Kars, Diarbekir). MerhaBarev is also a book in four languages (Armenian,Turkish, English and German), calendars and posters.
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