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Manning Clark House
11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest ACT 2603 AUSTRALIA
Contact: Judith Crispin
Tel: +61 2 6295 9533
Mob: +61 447 584 246
E-mail 1: [email protected]
Email 2: [email protected]
Manning Clark House Webpage: http://www.manningclark.org.au
Pozible Webpage: http://www.pozible.com/project/181730
Australians crowd-funding a book on cultural destruction in
post-genocide Armenia
24 June, 2014. Manning Clark House in Canberra, Australia, is
crowdfunding a new book on the willful destruction of Armenian culture
and the challenges that face ordinary families in post-genocide
Armenia. The book will contain 170 photographs by Judith Crispin and
essays by ten Armenian and non-Armenian scholars including Dickran
Kouymijian, Vicken Babkenian and Hamlet Petrovsyan. It will be
published internationally by Daylight books in March 2015.
Living in one of the most beautiful and fragile places on earth,
Armenian families often suffer generations of poverty due to ongoing
military tensions and blockades.At Djulfa, the first Christian
monuments - khachkarsfrom as early as the 5th century, have been
reduced to rubble by mercenaries and soldiers. In November 2013
Manning Clark House sent photographers to Armenia in an effort to
locate existing pictures of these khachkars and to photograph the site
of Djulfa cemetery in what is now Azerbaijan. After being deported
from Iran, the photographers travelled to Agarak, on the Iranian and
Azerbaijani border with Armenia, to capture the mountains around
Djulfa from the other side of the border. Manning Clark House was
struck by the conditions that Armenian people are forced to live in
due to the presence of soldiers and border snipers, lack of community
services and wide-spread poverty. A decision was made to try to bring
these conditions to international attention through a widely
disseminated photography book.
Since the Armenian genocide 100 years ago, the situation of Armenia in
the world has been precarious. A tiny island of Christianity
surrounded by Islamic countries, Armenia has been continually
blockaded by Turkey. Poverty, insecurity and loss of identity have
been constant obstacles for Armenians. Despite efforts by many of the
worlds leading academics and scholars, the Armenian genocide has never
been acknowledged by the broad international community. This book aims
to shine a light on the people who live in Armenia, their culture,
their landscapes, their religions and food and to encourage debate on
how to ensure Armenia's precious cultural heritage survives into the
future.
For this project to proceed, Manning Clark House needs to raise money
through crowd funding. You can purchase a signed and numbered
advanced-edition of the book from our Pozible site:
http://www.pozible.com/project/181730 and help Manning Clark House
encourage the world to stand up and defend Armenian culture.
Manning Clark House
11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest ACT 2603 AUSTRALIA
Contact: Judith Crispin
Tel: +61 2 6295 9533
Mob: +61 447 584 246
E-mail 1: [email protected]
Email 2: [email protected]
Manning Clark House Webpage: http://www.manningclark.org.au
Pozible Webpage: http://www.pozible.com/project/181730
Australians crowd-funding a book on cultural destruction in
post-genocide Armenia
24 June, 2014. Manning Clark House in Canberra, Australia, is
crowdfunding a new book on the willful destruction of Armenian culture
and the challenges that face ordinary families in post-genocide
Armenia. The book will contain 170 photographs by Judith Crispin and
essays by ten Armenian and non-Armenian scholars including Dickran
Kouymijian, Vicken Babkenian and Hamlet Petrovsyan. It will be
published internationally by Daylight books in March 2015.
Living in one of the most beautiful and fragile places on earth,
Armenian families often suffer generations of poverty due to ongoing
military tensions and blockades.At Djulfa, the first Christian
monuments - khachkarsfrom as early as the 5th century, have been
reduced to rubble by mercenaries and soldiers. In November 2013
Manning Clark House sent photographers to Armenia in an effort to
locate existing pictures of these khachkars and to photograph the site
of Djulfa cemetery in what is now Azerbaijan. After being deported
from Iran, the photographers travelled to Agarak, on the Iranian and
Azerbaijani border with Armenia, to capture the mountains around
Djulfa from the other side of the border. Manning Clark House was
struck by the conditions that Armenian people are forced to live in
due to the presence of soldiers and border snipers, lack of community
services and wide-spread poverty. A decision was made to try to bring
these conditions to international attention through a widely
disseminated photography book.
Since the Armenian genocide 100 years ago, the situation of Armenia in
the world has been precarious. A tiny island of Christianity
surrounded by Islamic countries, Armenia has been continually
blockaded by Turkey. Poverty, insecurity and loss of identity have
been constant obstacles for Armenians. Despite efforts by many of the
worlds leading academics and scholars, the Armenian genocide has never
been acknowledged by the broad international community. This book aims
to shine a light on the people who live in Armenia, their culture,
their landscapes, their religions and food and to encourage debate on
how to ensure Armenia's precious cultural heritage survives into the
future.
For this project to proceed, Manning Clark House needs to raise money
through crowd funding. You can purchase a signed and numbered
advanced-edition of the book from our Pozible site:
http://www.pozible.com/project/181730 and help Manning Clark House
encourage the world to stand up and defend Armenian culture.