Hrant Dink Foundation, Galata Fotoğrafhanesi Fotoğraf Akademisi, Free Press Unlimited and Youth Initiative Centre of Gyumri have jointly organised the Multimedia Project for Promoting Dialogue with the support of the Consulate-General of the Netherlands and the British Embassy. The Project aims at establishing direct communication between photojournalists and photographers from Armenia and Turkey and enabling them to think collectively to promote dialogue between the two countries by making 5 joint multimedia productions.

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The project has brought together 10 participants, 5 from Turkey, 5 from Armenia with prior experience in documentary photography/photojournalism in two multimedia workshops in İstanbul and in a photojournalistic trip to Kars and Gyumri. 

Aleksey Manukyan, Anush Babajanyan, Armenuhi Vardanyan, Marianna Vardanyan and Sofia Danielyan from Armenia joined Anıl Çizmecioğlu, Arif Yaman, Derya Deniz Pekkıyıcı, Eren Aytuğ and Volkan Doğar from Turkey at the first multimedia workshop at İstanbul Tütün Deposu on September 12-18, 2011. 

During the first workshop, they attended sessions on "Multimedia Production" by the documentary film maker Jack Janssen; "Multimedia Techniques" by the visual artist Sevgi Ortaç; "Documentary Photography" by the photographer Yücel Tunca and "Visual Storytelling" by the photographer Berge Arabian.

Throughout the week, the photographers also shared their own perspectives on dialogue and thanks to the facilitation of the trainers they chose their pairs from the neighbouring country and identified the common topics to work on.

In the second phase of the project, from September 19 to 27, 2011, 2 pairs travelled to Kars and 3 pairs to Gyumri to make the shootings and recordings for the topics they identified.

In the last phase, all teams got together at a second workshop in İstanbul at Galata Fotoğrafhanesi from November 21 to 27, 2011 to finalise the editing of their multimedia productions. During the week, participants screened their work-in-progress and worked with Jack Janssen and Sevgi Ortaç to finalise their editing. The last workshop also hosted journalist and photographer Onnik Krikorian who shared his own project OneWorld using multimedia and social media for promoting dialogue between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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