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Photo Story: Ex-Doctor Finds Relief in Alcohol (ZDDBDDB007) |
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Photo Story by: Gogi Tsagareli
Date: Feb, 2003
Happiness is not always a prestigious job, a large family, and lots of money. It takes only a glass of vodka for Revaz Adiashvilli to feel alive again. A former military traumatologyst, Revaz found his relief in alcohol with the price of losing his wife, his 13 years old daughter, his friends, and his fortune. He put up for sale everything he could from his apartment leaving only a piano and a couple of paintings that he inherited from his father, a famous Georgian painter. And with the money he got, Revaz bought nothing else but alcohol. At present he lives with his mother, Verico, who has sclerosis and he never regrets what he has done in the past. Revaz always assures that he is happy because “his mother lives, his daughter is healthy and the weather is beautiful outside”.
©2003 Gogi Tsagareli/Patker-Soyuz "Media Center" |
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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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