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    Belmont Citizen-Herald, MA
    Dec 3 2004

    Eminent photographers to talk about news


    Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives and the Armenian Library
    and Museum of America (ALMA) will present a panel discussion on
    Tuesday, Dec. 7, featuring Harry L. Koundakjian, Associated Press
    international photo editor; Steve Kurkjian, Boston Globe
    investigative reporter and editor; and Garo Lachinian, photographer
    and former director of photography at the Boston Herald.

    The topic, "Image is Everything: Photography and the World's
    Defining Moments," is a public program accompanying the exhibit "50
    Photographs/50 years: Harry L. Koundakjian, AP Photographer."

    With more than 50 years under his belt as a news photographer
    and journalist, Koundakjian helped set the tone for photojournalism
    in the Middle East. In 1959 he began working for the Associated Press
    as a freelancer. In 1969 he joined AP as staff and established the AP
    Photo Desk in Beirut. As the AP's chief Middle East photographer, he
    was responsible for covering all 13 Arab countries in the Middle
    East, North and East Africa, Turkey and Iran. His current photograph
    exhibition, produced by Project SAVE Archives and exhibited at ALMA,
    covers an extraordinary array of events.

    Stephen A. Kurkjian has been a reporter and editor at The Boston
    Globe since 1968. He has served as an investigative reporter and was
    a founding member of The Globe's investigative Spotlight Team. He has
    won more than 25 regional and national reporting awards, including
    three Pulitzer Prizes, in 1971, 1981 and 2003. In 1986 he was named
    chief of The Globe's Washington Bureau and for six years oversaw the
    paper's 10 reporters in Washington. In addition, while in Washington,
    D.C., he covered the Supreme Court, the Justice Department, and the
    White House during the first war in Iraq. Last year he was honored by
    New England's Society of Professional Journalists for a lifetime of
    achievement in journalism.

    Belmont resident Garo Lachinian has been a news photographer for
    nearly 20 years. At the Concord, N.H. Monitor, he covered New
    Hampshire's reaction to the death of its hometown teacher/astronaut
    Christa McAuliffe in the 1986 Challenger explosion. At the Baltimore
    Sun, he did a five-part series on corruption in the Baltimore City
    Police Department, and covered three presidential primaries and two
    presidential elections. He joined the Boston Herald in November 1998
    as its special projects photographer. Later as director of
    photography, he oversaw all aspects of the Photography Department's
    operations and managed the staff of 25 photographers and picture
    editors. He was named Photographer of the Year in July 2000 by the
    Boston Press Photographers Association. In addition to five Pulitzer
    Prize nominations, Lachinian's honors include first place for General
    News Photography in the 1995 World Press Photo Competition, and
    numerous awards from the National Press Photographers Association and
    the Associated Press.

    These three distinguished panelist will discuss the role
    photography plays in today's news reporting, from the point of view
    of the photographer, the journalist and the public. The panel will be
    moderated by Ruth Thomasian, executive director of Project SAVE
    Archives.

    The public is invited to this free panel discussion which starts
    at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 7, and will include a question-and-answer
    period.

    The exhibit, "50 years/50 photographs: Harry L. Koundakjian, AP
    Photographer," will be open for viewing starting at 7 p.m. The
    exhibit will run through Jan. 14, at Project SAVE Armenian Photograph
    Archives and the Armenian Library and Museum of America, 65 Main St.,
    third floor gallery, Watertown. ALMA is wheelchair accessible.

    For directions and more information, contact Project SAVE
    Archives at 617-923-4542 or [email protected].
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