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Special Issue Information: Vigen Mnoyan (Armenia) forums will help photographers to effectively address these challenges. – Marina, what do you think is the main result of the project? – I believe the most important result of our project is the promotion of person-to-person contacts between photographers from the Eastern Partnership region. It gives me pleasure to watch photographers interact. Importantly, they used to have no networking opportunities. There used to be some sporadic projects organized within the framework of cooperation between photographers from neighboring countries – Ukraine and Belarus or Moldova and Ukraine. However, personto-person contacts between photographers from, say, Belarus and Georgia, Azerbaijan and Moldova, were virtually nonexistent. Currently photographers communicate in social networks; they have also established personal contacts and found common interests. For example, I was very excited to watch a photo flashmob on my Facebook news feed, as the participants in our projects have been “photo challenging” each other to post one black-and-white picture every day and invite new people to participate. Importantl 䰁ѡ