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NarPhotos in 7th AFSAD Photography Symposium
(Documentary Photography Meeting)

2 May Friday
14:00 – 16:00 From past to present ; Documentary Photography in Turkey
Mehmet Kaçmaz (Panelist)

16:00 -18:00
Hüsamettin Bahçe / Ezidi / Slideshow

NarPhotos-PatkerPhoto Merhabarev YEREVAN-ISTANBUL Exhibition
(Gallery C)

3 May Saturday
15:00-17:00
Documentary Photography as a Way of Understanding and Opposition
Özcan Yurdalan (Panelist)

17:30 -19:30
Tolga Sezgin / Seasonal Workers (Slideshow)
Kerem Uzel ve Serra Akcan / Ayazma : Urban Transformation in Istanbul (Slide Show)

4 May Sunday
11:00 -13:00
Saner Şen / African Immigrants in Istanbul (Slideshow)

Çankaya Belediyesi Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi
Kennedy Cad. No: 4 Kavaklıdere / ANKARA

Merhabarev in Diyarbakir

The exhibition called Merhabarev and put together by ten documentary photographers from Turkey and Armenia (Nar Photos - Patker Photo) is opened on January 13 at the Diyarbakir Art Center (DSM). The exhibition reflecting daily life in Yerevan and Istanbul took place firstly in Yerevan on October 2006 and was very successful. After the opening in Istanbul on 4 December, the second station of the exhibition in Anatolia is Diyarbakir after Gumri.

The exhibition Merhabarev, YEREVAN-ISTANBUL will be on display at Diyarbakir Art Center (DSM) from 13 until 31 January 2007.

For information: +90 412 228 94 00

Merhabarev in Istanbul

The exhibition featuring the work of ten documentary photographers. Merhabarev will open at the Karşı Sanat gallery on Monday, 4 December. This exhibition was opened in Yerevan on October and was very successful. It has been also published a book including all the pictures of this exhibition in four language.

The name of this exhibition is composed by two words with the same meaning 'hello': "Merhaba" in Turkish and "Barev" in Armenian. Ten photographers from Istanbul and Erivan gathered in March 2006 and decided to perform a collective workshop .The point of origin was the insufficient knowledge of two societies about each other. They spent one week in each city and during that time they tried not only to photograph the appearances but also the reality underneath them.

They shot thousands of pictures and the 130 ones that are picked up among them established the MERHABAREV exhibition.

Undoubtedly the time has been limited and both cultural cities served endless photographic opportunities. With their cameras they were treated friendly in official areas, crowded avenues, residences to which we were specially invited, faraway quarters and back streets. With the help of our photos we wish to establish a bridge between people, nations and cultures.

During the exhibition which will be on display at Karşı Sanat Gallery from 4 December until 23 December 2006, you can see Yerevan's pictures taken by Turkish photographers Serra Akcan, Kerem Uzel, Mehmet Kaçmaz, Tolga Sezgin and Özcan Yurdalan and Istanbul's pictures by Armenian photographers Karen Mirzoyan, German Avagyan, Ruben Mangasaryan, Nelli Şişmanyan and Anahit Hayrapetyan.

Husamettin Bahçe's Photo Exhibition, ‘Ezidi’ is in Diyarbakir

Documentary photo exhibition ‘Ezidi’ from our agency’s photographer Husamettin Bahce will be exhibited in 5-30 April at Diyarbakir Art Center Gallery. Photographs presenting Ezidi culture, their daily life and religious rituals of Ezidi community that lives in Northern Iraq, especially in Lalish and Shengal regions, have been taken in 2005 and 2006.

Fifth Stop of Merhabarev, Tbilisi

Merhabarev, Yerevan-Istanbul photography exhibition of NarPhotos and PatkerPhoto will be displayed in capital of Georgia, Tbilisi, between February 8th - March 7th 2007.

The opening of the exhibition held in Tbilisi National Library with a wide participation of locals and concern of the ambassadors in the country. The Armenian and Turkish ambassadors and the Switzerland ambassador Lorenzo Amberg made speeches at the opening of the exhibition which is supported by the Switzerland Embassy.


© Mehmet Kaçmaz

Tbilisi is the fifth stop of Merhabarev exhibition after Yerevan, Istanbul, Gyumri and Diyarbakir.

'Merhabarev Yerevan-Istanbul' Exhibition Opened in Yerevan

Ten documentary photographers from Nar Photos and Patker Photo put together the exhibition called "Merhabarev/Yerevan-Istanbul," which depicts daily life in Yerevan and Istanbul. It opened on Oct. 25 and runs through Nov. 2

The exhibit's title is a combination of the words "Merhaba" and "Barev" meaning "Hello" in Turkish and Armenian respectively. The Turkish documentary photographers are Ozcan Yurdalan, Serra Akcan, Mehmet Kacmaz, Kerem Uzel and Tolga Sezgin, and those from Armenia are Ruben Mangasaryan, Karen Mirzoyan, Anahit Hayrapetyan, Nelli Sismanyan and German Avagyan. According to the project which have been started in March, photographers from Istanbul and photographers from Yerevan, worked respectively in Yerevan and Istanbul, during one week to reflect daily life with their cameras. Mainly highlighting the importance of direct dialogue and an unprejudiced approach, the photographers focused on the importance of greetings in all encounters by combining the two words.

The photographers also aimed at emphasizing the importance of the future and of looking towards the future even when catching daily life on film. In the belief that relations between the two nations can become normal by overcoming problems stemming from a lack of dialogue and overcoming prejudices, the photographers aimed to reflect what they saw and experienced through their lenses. After first opening in Yerevan's best-known cultural center the Moscow Cinema, it's on in Istanbul on first December and will then go to many countries . This project supported by Heinrich Böll Stiftung Turkey, Anadolu Culture and Karşı Art Works.

'Nar Photos / Reportages' Exhibition Will Be Open At
Istanbul Internatıonal Independent Media Forum

Activists, specialists, workers, students, analysts and initiatives from across the world and Turkey, who strive for an independent and democratic communication environment will meet in Istanbul. Within the forum titled 'Another Communication is Possible', 11 reportages produced by Nar Photos photographers will be exhibited. There will be many participants from international media and subjects like Independent Media Environment and Prospects for Non- Mainstream, Gender and Independent Media, Independent Media for Peace will be discussed.

For detailed information about the forum : www.bianet.org