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Photo Story: Nato - Dark side of strip-tease (ZDDBDDE001) |
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Photo Story by: Ruben Mangasaryan/Patker
Date: Feb, 2003
Nato is a stripper, 26, working in nightclub Hollywood in Yerevan, Armenia. She is a Georgian, born in Ukraine, who came to work in nightclubs of Yerevan. This photostory tells about the offstage life of the stripper.
The performance photos are in color, the rest is black and white. Black and White is the part of her life which other people do not see.
Despite the vivid life the strippers have, especially Nato, they feel quite lonely in life without any clear future. She is working for her family (parents), left in Ukraine. Everyday she gets drunk, lives alone with her dog.
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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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