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Photo Story: Georgian Clown (ZDDEDDE002) |
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Photo Story by: Yuri Lobodin
Date: May, 2003
Sandro Tediashvili, Georgian honored artist, the head of the circus department in Tbilisi pop-circus school and celebrated Georgian clown will turn 90 in August. However, he still works, training young people - future clowns at school. He first appeared on the scene as a schoolboy. During the Second World War he made a part of Far-Eastern front choir. After the war he returned to Tbilisi Young People's Theater. Later on, the country authorities decided to create the national Georgian circus. They started to search for the artist who could become the first national clown. The choice fell on Sandro. His first performance with the national circus was in 1958. He used to be an acting clown for 25 years until reaching the age of 66.
“Clownery is a very complicated art. Unfortunately, not everyone treats this profession with respect, and for this I feel very sorry,” he says.
©2003 Yuri Lobodin/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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