FIRST OPEN AIR PAN-ARMENIAN PHOTO-FESTIVAL KICKS OFF

Armenpress
Aug 09 2006

YEREVAN, AUGUST 9, ARMENPRESS: First Pan-Armenian photo-festival
entitled "Under the Open Sky" kicked off today in the Moskovian garden
in Yerevan, with the participation of 40 professional photographers
and beginners from Armenia and Diaspora.

The open air photo-festival has been organized by the National
Association of Armenian Photographers in cooperation with "Vega"
company. The festival will last for three days. It presents 200 works
related to different themes, including the crash of the Armenian
airplane A-320, on May 3.

The head of the National Association of Armenian Photographers Sergey
Hakobian said that the festival has been organized during one month
and a half and is aimed at the development of photography in Armenia.

"Armenian photographers have great potential and our association will
do everything possible to make the festival Pan-Armenian and annual,"
he said, adding that in future they will try to establish relations
with a number of international organizations dealing with photography
and participate in international festivals presenting Armenia with
the eyes of Armenian photographers.

The head of the association also noted that photographers from Turkey
and Iran also presented their works, though because of short time
many of the representatives of Diaspora could not participate in
the initiative.