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October 13, 2011

Dear Friends,  A new Image Gallery:
'Luxor City and Karnak Village: Changing the Past',
is available for viewing. I look forward to your visit.
 Also, please visit: 'Sites in the City',
30. September 2011 – 19. February 2012
The photographers Sue Lezon and Yarko Kobylecky
made images of as many of the buildings and streets
in the city of Luxor, Karnak and Gurna Villages as
possible before they disappeared. Probably, their
photographic archive is the only remaining
documentation of these parts of Luxor and Gurna.
At the: National Museum of Antquities
Rapenburg 28
P.O. Box 11114
2301 EC Leiden
Netherlands
http://www.rmo.nl/english/current/exhibitions/sites-in-the-city
All the Best, Yarko


Posted at: 11:29 PM | Add Comment

Pia said...

So, that is my first blog! (not only here, everywhere!!!) You made a beautiful website, everything looks so nice! Pia

Posted August 14, 2009 02:37 AM | Reply to this comment

michelangelo mysterioso replied to ...

this is my first blog anywhere ever also. congratulations on a most elegant site and also congratulations to both belatedely.

Posted August 16, 2009 01:49 PM | Reply to this comment

Andrew Kasian said...

As usual, great work Yarko. contact; inreco@msn.com

Posted August 22, 2009 11:17 AM | Reply to this comment

peter (butros) said...

Yarko, the pix of Qurnah are spectacular--powerful, moving & poignant. I know the villages have to go, but the pain, the loss, the sense of the denial of hope are palpable in your images. The images of packing up household possessions and the piles of broken goods left behind are haunting and disturbing. You remind me how much I care for the Qurnawis. I know, I know, brain says they gotta go, but heart says, "at such a price!" You've captured color, texture and circumstance, not to mention sadness and, yes, hope too. Awesome. All our love, Peter & Myrna

Posted August 22, 2009 02:09 PM | Reply to this comment

Herbert Drücke said...

Gratulation zur tollen neuen Webseite. Prima, daß Du auch die Bilder von der West-Bank-Siedlung zeigst. Auf baldiges Wiedersehen in LUXOR

Posted August 27, 2009 09:02 AM | Reply to this comment

Jen said...

Gorgeous, elegant. It's very cool to look at your Medinet Habu photos and see it from a completely different perspective than my usual slogging-through-the-day blindness. Congratulations on the whole thing. Say hi to Pia!

Posted September 2, 2009 08:44 PM | Reply to this comment

BEN SCOTT said...

THE LINES ON THE SAND ARE MADE FROM WIND AND SNAKES.THE BIGEST DESERT IS THE GOBI DESERT.

Posted September 16, 2009 05:35 AM | Reply to this comment

peter (butros) replied to Jen...

Jen, I know just what you mean. You work every day, day in and day out in these monuments, and over time your vision narrows, and you start to see only what relates to your own work. That was my issue in tombs no.72 and 121. The cool thing about Yarko's imagery is his vision that forces us to expand our perceptions again. Maybe it provides an impetus to use the lunch breaks (when you actually take a lunch at the Habu) and spend the time walking around and reconnecting. Cheers and wishing you all the best.

Posted September 27, 2009 10:25 PM | Reply to this comment

Markus Pasek said...

Dear Yarko, congratulations for your new revised and updated homepage "The Egyptian Desert Portfolio". It's really fantastic, like being in a real museum! What an elegant design, full of ingenious effects - it must be the work of an artist ;-) Especially the new pictures from the Eastern Desert let my heart beat faster - nice to have a real photographer as a travel partner! All the best, Markus

Posted September 30, 2009 08:06 AM | Reply to this comment

m. mysterioso said...

Yarko, just to let you know that interested people revisit your wonderful work, just like highway 61.

Posted July 20, 2010 05:42 PM | Reply to this comment

Marie Bryan said...

Just love the Coptic photos, especially as I've now visited a couple of the places. Great work, Yarko!

Posted February 28, 2011 08:24 AM | Reply to this comment

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