ARMENIAN PICTURE GALLERY TO HOST A UNIQUE FRENCH EXHIBITION

Armenpress
Oct 17 2005

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 17, ARMENPRESS: The French Embassy in Yerevan said
Ambassador Henry Cuny will open the exhibition of photographs by Yann
Arthus-Bertrand, one of the most well known aerial photographers,
at Armenian National Picture Gallery on October 21 at 6 pm.

The exhibition, called Earth from Air is the result of a five-year
airborne odyssey across five continents and more than a hundred of
countries, presenting the most revealing and spectacular portrait of
our world ever created. From a heart-shaped mangrove forest in New
Caledonia to a flock of red ibises in Venezuela, from a caravan of
camels in Mauritania to Mt. Everest and Mammoth Hot Springs, Yann
Arthus-Bertrand presents tens of striking color images that put our
home planet in a whole new perspective and are a unique documentary
record of its fragile ecosystems at the dawn of the new millennium.

He undertook this project in 1995 that had long been close to his
heart -to produce, on the eve of the 21st century, a real photographic
inventory of the planet -from an altitude of between 5 and 2,000
meters. His photographs were published in many books and were printed
in 24 languages.

The earth from Air was shown in 30 countries and 50 million people
have already enjoyed his art.

Wishing to share his photographic views with blind people Yann
Arthus-Bertrand asked Alain Miklin, a French Armenian and the founder
of an eye-glass factory, to prepare dactyloscopic prints of the
photographs to give a chance to people with eyesight problems to
communicate with his stunning pictures.