PRESS RELEASE For immediate release 20.07.15 MEDIA CONTACT Cassie French, Pop-Up Publicity
[email protected] / 0416 209 391 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION. History, War History, Australian History, Turkish History, Stories A National Touring Exhibition across 5 cities: Sydney, Hobart, Perth, Melbourne, Canberra (dates/details p.3) Gallipoli Then & Now: Bonds Forged by War Photographs by Vedat Acikalin HOBART 30 July – 22 August 2015. Allport Library & Museum of Fine Arts, Hobart OPENING NIGHT Allport Library & Museum of Fine Arts, Hobart - Thursday 30 July 6-8pm SYDNEY 05 August – 30 September 2015. Customs House Library, Circular Quay, Sydney CBD MEDIA & INVITATION ONLY OPENING NIGHT Customs House, Sydney - Wednesday 05 August 6.30-8.30pm #01 (see page 4 of Press Release for full captions) #02 Above. Adil Sahin (l) and Len Hall (r) meet as friends in 1990 on the Gallipoli Peninsula, the 1915 battlefield they once fought on as enemies. Adil was 17yrs old when he enlisted and Len only 16 – here here together 75 years later. #03 #04 #05 #06 GALLIPOLI THEN & NOW: BONDS FORGED BY WAR is the follow-on exhibition from Acikalin’s 2011 exhibition, When Old Foes Meet (Chifley Plaza Exhibition Space, Sydney