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Photo Story: Vardavar-Water Celebration (ZDDGDDG001)

Photo Story by: Ruben Mangasaryan
Date: 27 Jul, 2003

In July Armenians celebrate the funniest holiday of the year – the Vardavar. On that day people gleefully pour water on each other and believe that it brings the purification and renewal of life. Cheerfulness and merry mood is prevailed over the routine throughout Armenia on Water holiday. People go to the streets to throw water on passerby and be poured by their neighbors. Bottles and water guns are the main attributes of the holiday. No one should be insulted and offended. The holiday has the religious excuse as Armenian Church welcomed it several hundreds years ago. Article available.

©2003 Ruben Mangasaryan/Patker

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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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