Heikkilä, Jaakko: ARMENIAN VAIETUT TARINAT / UNSPOKEN DESTINIES / (Also in Armenian).

Author: Serafim, Brother
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish/English/Armenian
Year Published: 2008
No. of pages: 151
Illustrations: 81 Color Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 10”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9789520102029
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh. Bio.
Code: 6305

Price: $49.50

Finnish photographer Jaakko Heikkila has been listening to the stories of Armenians in Armenia and the Los Angeles area. Through these pictorial stories he handles brutality, suffering, refugees and cultural identity, new possibilities and relationships with their new home country. The pictures are strong and beautiful, glimpses from houses without floors, from the walls of palaces and from modern houses. The cruelest period in the long and eventful history of the Armenian people is the genocidal act committed by Turkey in 1915-1918. There is hardly any Armenian who has not been affected by this mass murder, and many Armenians live now scattered around the world. Jaakko Heikkila has been listening to the stories of the political message and it is an important one: although up to 1,5 million people died in the atrocities committed in Turkey; NATO and USA among others have not recognized it officially as genocide. Brother Serafim has written a concise history of Armenia that completes finely the pictures.