Today I have found some time to visit the gallery called Cats&Marbles, while walking on the boutique streets of chic neighborhood Kolonaki, on the shoulders of Lycavittos Hill with sporadic view of Acropolis. I had recently read in one of the English nespapers of Athens, Athens News, about Athens Photo Festival'08 and an exhibition by Vanessa Winship, called Sweet Nothings: rural schoolgirls from the borderlands of Eastern Anatolia, as one of the events of the festival. It was really an odd experience to read about a photo-exhibition, which is about a part of your home country, Turkey, which is alien to you too...Schoolgirls of Eastern Anatolia...
They reminded me so much about my undergraduate years when we were enthusiastic about Civic Involvement Projects (CIP) of Sabanci University, not just for the improvement of poor and needy children of the suburbs of Istanbul, also for the ones who were living in the East and Southeast part of Turkey, in Diyarbakir, Van, Mardin, Antep...We were creating voluntarily and involving to several projects with children that I have seen some of them today, again... same faces, same eyes... in one of the shining neighborhoods of Athens, inside photo-frames without any idea in their minds and on their looks about the next destination of their faith and photos taken by a foreigner... While looking at the photos, it was impossible to believe that all of us, me and them, were the equal female citizens of the same country with equal education rights. Moreover, the pity thing was they were the elementary school students of 2008s, while I had been to elementary school more than a decade earlier than them, in the same country... It was really pity and I was so sorry because of the situation that i had faced several times before and today again... It was for sure that we were the lucky ones, but what should we do more for them?
Cats&Marbles www.catsandmarbles.com
Athens News www.athensnews.gr
Athens Photo Festival'08 www.hcp.gr
Vanessa Winship www.vanessawinship.com
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kızımız Atina'da sergi de gezermiş:))afferin!
yazmaya devam:)))sayende atina kültürünü yakından tanıma fırsatı ediniyoruz...saol,varol! :)
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