It's a GAS in Yerevan!

[mike goldberg]

My son and his partner were in Armenia and the Georgian Republic recently. This is part of a panorama from the Yerevan Flea Market. Like a kid in the candy store, huh? No-no-no... he didn't bring me any. I'm done for a while.
Cheers, mike 😉

 

[nzeeman]

WOOOOW!!!! LCUKY YOU!!! i would love to go there...

 

[ferider]

My son and his partner were in Armenia and the Georgian Republic recently. This is part of a panorama from the Yerevan Flea Market. Like a kid in the candy store, huh? No-no-no... he didn't bring me any. I'm done for a while.
Cheers, mike 😉

I hope you got a couple of bottles of Cognac, too !

Roland.

 

[shadowfox]

I want the Zorki 4 on the left!!!

 

[mich8261]

Mike, are your son's pictures hosted somewhere on the web? Armenia and the Republic of Georgia are on my list of place to visit. I would love to see some pictures.

 

[alternatve]

(😵) That's a cool flea market!

 

[Magus]

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[rxmd]

Nice!

I'll post camera shots from Tashkent flea market next time I go 🙂

 

[Zorkiiglaza]

That fleamarket is like the one that they had every Sunday in Athens back in the 90's. Back when the cost of GAS was quite cheap.

For those interested in Georgian photography look at this website

http://www.photomuseum.org.ge/celebration/index_en.htm

In two weeks I will return to Kazakhstan, but the fleamarkets there are nearly all dried up. Occasionally I will find a nice specimen.

 

[rxmd]

Hi Zorkiiglaza,

where in Kazakhstan are you going? I will need to go to Almaty at some point over the next months to go to the archive; if you will be there for longer and are somewhere within reach, we might meet for a beer or something.

Philipp

 

[HuubL]

I want the Zorki 4 on the left!!!

Spotted that one too, and the Kiev in the middle 🙂

 

[Zorkiiglaza]

Philipp

You can write to me privately, however, I will be there May 24-Aug 4th.

Back to our excavations between the airport and the mountains.

See http://www.faculty.sbc.edu/cchang/Kaz web/Index.htm

We have been working in the area since 1994. If you want I can connect you with an old Russian with a very large collection. He kept me supplied and I kept his family alive one winter in the early '90s.

Perry

 

[mike goldberg]

Am delighted this Thread got a buzz. I look forward to seeing pix of the people, geography and gear that you guys bring back.
Cheers, mike

 

[rxmd]

Hi Perry,

you've got mail. It will be mid-June until I can make it to Almaty, so that looks fine.

Philipp

 

[Zorkiiglaza]

Mike and others

I have been working in Central Asia since 1994. I spent 15 months there 94-95.
In 1997-1999 I spent 26 months there. In addition I usually spend 2 months there every summer. Last year I spent 8 months there. I spent my first winter 1994-95 ( I had finished washing all of our artifacts and snow and cold was a problem) documenting life in Almaty. I shot over 100 rolls of b/w and countless rolls of slides. My photography there has slowed down since the "magic" is almost gone and the city has been so modernized. Now there are traffic jams, Japanese SUV's, and every other shop sells cell phones.

Photos can be seen on photo.net. Some taken with Soviet FEDs and Kievs , Olympus XA and SP 35 and the rest with Nikon SLRs.

Take a look and enjoy, scroll down past the lastest photos shot in India with my DSLR.

http://www.photo.net/photos/ptourtellotte


Perry

 

[tedwhite]

Amazing stuff, Perry. I found myself looking into another world I basically didn't know existed. Thanks.

Ted