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AUTHOR OF OBAMA'S BEST PHOTOS SCOUT TUFANKJIAN TO GIVE CLASSES IN YEREVAN
09:50, 8 May, 2013
YEREVAN, MAY 8, ARMENPRESS. American-Armenian photojournalist Scout
Tufankjian will give classes of photojournalism in "Tumo" Centre
for Creative Technologies beginning from May 10. The classes will
last two weeks. In a conversation with "Armenpress" the Head of
Communications Department of "Tumo" Aram Gyumishyan stated that the
centre has always organized classes with participation of leading
specialists representing various spheres.
Among other things Aram Gyumishyan noted: "When we suggested Scout
to pay a visit to Armenia, as each Armenian, she stated that she
would love to visit Armenia and exchange her experience here and see
"Tumo" as well." The prominent photojournalist visited Armenia last
time in 2002.
Scout Tufankjian is an Armenian-American photojournalist based in
Brooklyn, New York. From 2006 to 2008 she covered Senator Barack
Obama's campaign for President of the United States, and was the only
independent journalist to follow him from the run up to his announcing
his candidacy through his victory on election night. Tufankjian took
more than 12,000 photographs throughout the campaign. She released a
book featuring a selection of the photographs titled Yes We Can: Barack
Obama's History-Making Presidential Campaign in December 2008, which
sold out its initial 55,000 copy run a month before it was released.
In August 2012, Tufankjian took a photo of Michelle Obama and President
Barack Obama hugging each other, and the Obama campaign staff sent
this picture out on the official Obama Facebook and Twitter accounts
the night of the election, Nov. 6, 2012. This picture become the most
liked photo on Facebook and most retweeted tweet in history.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/718125/author-of-obamas-best-photos-scout-tufankjian-to-give-classes-in-yerevan.html
09:50, 8 May, 2013
YEREVAN, MAY 8, ARMENPRESS. American-Armenian photojournalist Scout
Tufankjian will give classes of photojournalism in "Tumo" Centre
for Creative Technologies beginning from May 10. The classes will
last two weeks. In a conversation with "Armenpress" the Head of
Communications Department of "Tumo" Aram Gyumishyan stated that the
centre has always organized classes with participation of leading
specialists representing various spheres.
Among other things Aram Gyumishyan noted: "When we suggested Scout
to pay a visit to Armenia, as each Armenian, she stated that she
would love to visit Armenia and exchange her experience here and see
"Tumo" as well." The prominent photojournalist visited Armenia last
time in 2002.
Scout Tufankjian is an Armenian-American photojournalist based in
Brooklyn, New York. From 2006 to 2008 she covered Senator Barack
Obama's campaign for President of the United States, and was the only
independent journalist to follow him from the run up to his announcing
his candidacy through his victory on election night. Tufankjian took
more than 12,000 photographs throughout the campaign. She released a
book featuring a selection of the photographs titled Yes We Can: Barack
Obama's History-Making Presidential Campaign in December 2008, which
sold out its initial 55,000 copy run a month before it was released.
In August 2012, Tufankjian took a photo of Michelle Obama and President
Barack Obama hugging each other, and the Obama campaign staff sent
this picture out on the official Obama Facebook and Twitter accounts
the night of the election, Nov. 6, 2012. This picture become the most
liked photo on Facebook and most retweeted tweet in history.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/718125/author-of-obamas-best-photos-scout-tufankjian-to-give-classes-in-yerevan.html