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Photo Story: Vintage in Kakhetia (ZDGJDGJ001)

Photo Story by: Ruben Mangasaryan
Date: 05 Oct, 2006

Vintage or rtveli (it is how Georgians call it) starts in September. That’s when the grape-gathering begins in Melani village of Kakhetia. The vineyards here belonged to Colkhoz in Soviet times. Now they are privately owned, and vintagers work there for payment. The dark bunches of grapes from the vineyards of Melani make the famous Georgian wine saperavi. Wine is the main business in Kakhetia, and Kakhetian wines are regarded as the bests in Georgia.

©2006 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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