FIRST WINNER OF RPS WALL GRANT – DIANA MARKOSIAN PHOTO EXHIBITION!
Our very first grantee for the Reminders Photography Stronghold Wall Grant has been selected and is to be awarded to Armenian documentary photographer Diana Markosian from over 70 submissions we received in the Winter of 2012. Ahe her exhibition finally will open on April 13th!
You all are cordially invited. She will be also leading her workshop on a digital photography and photojournalism using two weekends in April and the very last day workshop participants will present their works and they will be reviewed by audience. This will be an open session afterwards we will have the closing exhibition party.
DATE: 2013/4/14 SAT – 2013/4/30 TUS 1PM TO 7PM (Opens everyday)
VENUE: THE REMIDNERS PHOTOGRAPHY STRONGHOLD GALLERY
NO ENTRY FEE for the exhibition.
CLOSING PARTY ON APRIL 29TH
date: 2013/4/29 MON (National holiday in Japan) 1pm to 7pm
venue: The reminders Photography Stronghold Gallery
from 1pm: Presentation and public review of Diana Markosian workshop participants
from 4pm: Diana’s talk on her exhibition and workshop and closing party onwards.
fee: 1,000 yen (with one softdrink / RPS members are free to enter)
Guest: photographer Diana Markosian
moderator: RPS curator, Yumi Goto
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Her project, “Goodbye My Chechnya” touched on how for young women in Chechnya, just rumors of a couple engaging in pre-martial relations is enough to get a girl killed. Modern-day Chechnya is going through Islamic revival, the government have been building mosques in every village.
Goodbye My Chechnya
The project chronicles the lives of young Muslim girls who have witnessed two wars and are now coming of age in that is rapidly redefining itself as a Muslim state.An exhibition of her work will be held at the Reminders Photography Stronghold Gallery in Tokyo in Mid-April 2013. More details on that soon.
Diana Markosian’s Biography:
Documentary photographer and writer, her reporting has taken her from Russia’s North Caucasus mountains, to the ancient Silk Road in Tajikistan and overland to the remote Wakhan Corridor in northeastern Afghanistan. She holds a masters from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Markosian’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Sunday Times Magazine, Foreign Policy, Foto8, Time.com, The London Times, Boston Globe, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, amongst others.
http://www.dianamarkosian.com/