I must say that the last couple weeks have been some of the hardest lately. I had a photo exhibit in NY and Boston over the weekend, submit a photo essay to a contest on Friday, and many other projects are going on right now, so I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed... on top of my job. But it's all been worth it. The event in NY was great. Here's one of the photos



I got to meet a lot of interesting people involved in different projects and that was probably the best part of the night. It's one thing to see these organizations and efforts results, but it's another thing to meet the people behind them to understand their drive. Tufenkian Foundation, Narekatsi Art Institute, Iranahye Miutyun, and even 1001kefnights.com are among the list. It's nice to put faces to foundations.

Otherwise, I submit photos of refugee families I met through the Norwegian Refugee Council my last trip to Armenia and now both photo collections are available on www.digitalrailroad.net/Arsineh. But one photo that isn't up there yet that I wanted to share is the following... a woman at vernisage who seemed to have very strong views.



She was very pro-Kerry. Apparently the fact that Kerry promised to recognize the Armenian genocide was enough for her. I didn't want to break her heart and tell her that Bush did the same when he campaigned in 2000, but her hopes are not completely misplaced. After 20 years of supporting Armenian issues in the Senate, he's bound to do more for us than Bush who has closed all his doors to us and kicked us a bit while we were down too. I can't say anything about people's views on these candidates otherwise, but if you are concerned with Armenian issues, I think that the choice is as clear as it gets.