Tomorrow we will post a beautifully shot audio slideshow of an ancient wrestling tournament that has taken place in Turkey for several centuries. Nichole Sobecki, an Istanbul-based reporter and photojournalist, talks about the event during a three-minute slideshow of black-and-white images of the greased wrestlers.
With this opening entry to the new EurasiaNet photo blog I am featuring the recent announcement of winners for the OSCE photo contest 2010 called Tolerance, Transparency, Tradition, Trust. A video of the some of the winning and finalist entries can be seen below.
Eric Gourlan, who shot for EurasiaNet in 2006 and 2007 in Kyrgyzstan, was one of the winners. Other finalists included Vadim Mudarisov from Kazakhstan and Laili Palvonova from Tajikistan.
The winners of the OSCE contest were announced June 29 at the OSCE High-level Conference on Tolerance and Non-Discrimination in Astana, where the images are on exhibition.
High atop the Anatolian Plain near the border with Syria a rare archaeological site may be revealing new clues to the origins of human farming. Klaus Schmidt, a German archaeologist who has been excavating the site since 1994, uncovered circles of huge decorated T-shaped stones that are at least 5,000 years older than any other monumental structure ever found.
