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    ISTANBUL TO HOST IRISH PHOTOJOURNALIST'S EXHIBITION ON "ARMENIAN FAMILY STORIES"

    10:38, 13 Jan 2015

    Istanbul's Depo art gallery will open an exhibition by Irish
    photojournalist Helen Sheehan on Jan. 14.

    In May 2014 Sheehan showed her projected photographic sound pieces
    inside the restored Armenian church of St. Giragos in Diyarbakir
    as part of a week-long photography festival hosted by Anadolu
    Kultur/Diyarbakýr Arts Center, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

    Sheehan's interest in Armenia and its diaspora was triggered
    by working as a teacher in the Mechitarist Seminary school on the
    Armenian Island of St. Lazzaro in Venice in the 1990s. However,
    this interest was re-awakened again in 2009 when she decided to
    narrate stories of Armenians in diaspora, both in Paris and London,
    where she was able to forge relationships with descendants of the
    exiles. By sheer coincidence most of the families could trace their
    ancestors back to the province of Diyarbakir.

    Sheehan tries to connect with their lost landscape and also attempts
    to engage with the people now living in these places and how they
    have transformed them into their own spaces.

    "Sheehan attempts to engage with the people now living in these places
    and how they have transformed them into their own spaces," Depo said.

    The exhibition titled "Armenian Family Stories and Lost Landscapes,"
    will continue through Feb. 8.

    http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/01/13/istanbul-to-host-irish-photojournalists-exhibition-on-armenian-family-stories/




    From: A. Papazian
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