GEORGS AVETISJANS

George Avetisyan ©

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Homeland. The Longest Village in the Country
2015 - 2018

'Homeland. The Longest Village in the Country' (2015-2018) is a multi-layered photographic narrative in a form of a photobook with cross-references like hyperlinks to additionally inserted stories connected to the subjects and landscape. The book is about the village where my Armenian-Greek father once had a dream to build a house for our family but unfortunately couldn’t finish it as he passed away when I was only 6 months young.

The project explores the sea, the land and memories, how the time affects and changes our sense of a place at the same time serving a nostalgic representation of the village in Latvia - Kaltene and its recent history from World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 via interviews, notes, and archival imagery. As the Iron curtain fell, the local economy changed and upon joining the EU in 2004, it changed again. These historical shifts made a huge impact on society and its dreams, many of which the younger generations have abandoned.

The place is located between the forest and the sea about 100 km northwest of the capital Riga. In the latter half of the 19th century and early 20th century, it was the second most productive village in the country as 55 seagoing sailing ships were built there.

“Landscapes – actual, remembered or idealized – feed our sense of belonging to whatever place, region or nation that we view as homeland”

Liz Wells

This is a chapter of the trilogy in which each part deals separately with the notions and meanings of Homeland, Fatherland and Motherland from a deeply personal and autobiographical perspective.
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Photobook /
Homeland. The Longest Village in the Country
2015 - 2018

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Second limited edition of 750, first printing

Available:

Milda Books Online Bookstore

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230 x 280 mm
Silk-screen printed hardback clothbound with blind letterpress
174 pages / including foldout pages
128 photographs / including archives
Memory Book / 44 pages
Newspaper / 24 pages

Published November 2018 by Milda Books

ISBN 978-9934-8748-0-2
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This book in the video and its two inserts are part of the first, 30-piece limited edition

The four special editions were sewn, bound and hard covered

by Hannah Moore and Stewart Graham-Hyde in Lewes, England

The remaining 26 editions were sewn, bound and hard covered

by Georgs Avetisjans in Brighton, England

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Self-published September 2016

Hardback clothbound

163 pages (including foldout pages)

118 photographs (including archives)

Memory Book : 44 pages

Newspaper : 36 pages

195 x 230 mm (portrait)

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Homeland, the book was printed at L&S Printing (Worthing, England)

Memory Book and Newspaper, the inserts were printed at Prontaprint (Brighton, England)

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The four special editions are SOLD OUT

The first limited edition - £175 / €195 / $225

SOLD OUT!

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FK Magazine

Georgs Avetisjans
Homeland. The Longest Village in the Country

Directed by Toms Harjo
Camera: Toms Harjo, Arnis Balčus
Editors: Toms Harjo, Lotta Harjo
Stars: Georgs Avetisjans, Gunārs Otmanis, Raivis Otmanis and Roberts Grozbahs
Gallery of Museum of Photography, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia, 2019

Gallery of Museum of Photography, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia, 2019

Gallery of Museum of Photography, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia, 2019

Gallery of Museum of Photography, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia, 2019

Gallery of Museum of Photography, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia, 2019

Gallery of Museum of Photography, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia, 2019

Gallery of Museum of Photography, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia, 2019

Gallery of Museum of Photography, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia, 2019

Gallery of Museum of Photography, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia, 2019

Gallery of Museum of Photography, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia, 2019

Gallery of Museum of Photography, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia, 2019

Gallery of Museum of Photography, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia, 2019

Gallery of Museum of Photography, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia, 2019

Gallery of Museum of Photography, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia, 2019

Gallery of Museum of Photography, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia, 2019

Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2018-2019

Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2018-2019

Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2018-2019

Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2018-2019

Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2018-2019

Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2018-2019

Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2018-2019

Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2018-2019

Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2018-2019

Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2018-2019

Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2018-2019

Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2018-2019

Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2018-2019

Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2018-2019

Roja Gallery, Roja, Latvia, 2017

Photon - Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2017

Grand Parade Gallery, Brighton, England, 2016
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  Gallery of Museum of Photography, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia, 2019
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  Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2018-2019
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  Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2018-2019
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  Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2018-2019
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  Roja Gallery, Roja, Latvia, 2017
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  Photon - Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2017
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  Grand Parade Gallery, Brighton, England, 2016
Exhibitions /
Homeland. The Longest Village in the Country
2016 - 2019

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2019 "Homeland" Gallery of Museum of Photography, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia
2018 - 2019 "Homeland" Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia
2017 Photon Gallery (Centre for Contemporary Photography) - Different Worlds, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017 "Homeland" Roja Gallery, Roja, Latvia
2016 "Counter-Memory" Grand Parade Gallery, Brighton, England