Art And Culture

Shared Heritage of Balkan on Display

A photo exhibition of national heritage and archeological artifacts from the Balkan countries is on display at Sa’dabad Cultural Historical Complex, June 18-25. Titled “The Balkans, A Shared Heritage,” the show includes 114 photographs by Bulgarian artist and photographer Ivo Hadjimishev, IRNA reported on its Persian website.

The pictures present a glimpse of shared historical and archeological relics of the Balkan Peninsula from the Middle Ages. 

Supported by the Dutch foundation Horizon, the exhibit was earlier held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris in 2015. 

Hadjimishev, 67, is president of the Bulgarian Photographic Society and honorary member of the Royal Photographic Society. His photos in the current exhibition have been published in a book by the same name The Balkans, A Shared Heritage.

The Balkans is an area situated in Southeastern and Eastern Europe that includes Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungry, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Serbia, Romania and Turkey. 

Sa’dabad Complex is located at Kamal Taheri St., Shahid Fallahi (Zaferanieh) St., Valiasr St.