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Photo Story: One day shot (ZDGEDGE004) |
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Photo Story by: Piruza Khalapyan
Date: 30 May, 2006
In 2005 there were 864 marriage applications in Armenia between Armenians and not Armenians, and almost all of the families couldn’t survive here, so, they preferred to search their way to better and brighter future out from Armenia.
Murtada is from Africa, Sudan. His wife Nara is Armenian, and they have a 3-year-old son Bashir.
Their family has a big challenge to survive: Murtada can’t find any work in Yerevan, as he has no college degree and his black skin color doesn’t help him much either. But he even can’t go back to his homeland, because he adopted Christianity and his family disinherited him for that reason. Nara is the only person in this family who works and is trying hardly to keep her family on its feet. Yet, Bashir's problems are far from the end. He has an Arabic name, (Bashir means Good news in Arabic), and he looks different from his Armenian friends.
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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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