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Latvian diplomatic
representations participate in photo campaign "One Day in Latvia -
Twenty Years Later"
On 31 August 2007, following an earlier call to all Latvian
representations abroad, a number of Latvian diplomatic missions,
including the Latvian Embassies in Finland,
Ireland, Canada, Norway,
Greece, the Czech Republic,
and China,
participated in the photo campaign One Day in Latvia - Twenty Years
Later. Among other participants was the representative of the
Latvian diaspora community in Australia,
Prof Ojars Greste, and the Latvian congregation in Argentina.
The Latvian Embassy in Finland
took pictures of the Latvian Ambassador Einars Semanis as he struck the
Latvian commemorative coin in the Finnish mint Rahapaja, whereas
the Latvian Embassy in Canada
captured moments from the celebrations of the 50th
anniversary of Tervete, the Latvian rural estate in Canada.
This unique photo campaign held on 31 August on the theme of One
Day in Latvia - Twenty Years Later was arranged by the association VIENA
DIENA.lv. As part of the event, 25 local and 25 foreign
photographers took pictures all day long in all the regions of Latvia,
capturing different moments: people, a variety of situations, schools,
hospitals, and other establishments.
The first campaign of this kind was held 20 years ago, when the best
photographers from the USSR,
Germany and Finland captured moments from the life
of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Each shot contained information about the date and place when and where
it was taken and a short description. A total of 30,000 photo negatives
were made, but which to this day have not been published and are stored
in the archives of Latvian museums.
The goal of this year's campaign
is to document Latvia
as it is today and to compare it with the Latvia of 20 years ago. The
photographs will be compiled in a voluminous photo album, with a number
of images taken 20 years ago that will be published and shown to the
public for the first time ever. The purpose of the album is to show the
development of Latvia
and its history as early as 1987. Two travelling exhibitions will also
be arranged for showings all around Latvia and in other
countries.
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