Sunday, August 19, 2007

POLITIC: Candidate for parliament: Hasan Huseynli (2005)

Photo & Text on November 20, 2005 by the Journalist Brendan Hoffman

A candidate for parliament from Ganja, Azerbaijan's second-largest city. This man was brilliant, by far the best candidate we met. After the fall of the USSR, he worked for two years on a newspaper, one of the first, without pay (since no one had jobs - the country had fallen apart). The paper was successful enough that it got him a meeting with the country's first president. He didn't win this election but his main opponent outspent him 10 to 1. He has a Fulbright lined up to come to the U.S. and study university accreditation systems. (Brendan Hoffman)

Brendan Hoffmann is a freelance photojournalist based in Washington, DC. He spend a lot of time covering Capitol Hill and the White House, as well as working on a variety of other stories for the World Picture Network photo agency. Go ahead and check out his website! He also posts a number of photos in his digital railroad archive at www.digitalrailroad.net/brendanhoffman. You can feel free to browse or search that too. Please don't use any of these photos without my permission! I'm happy to talk with you about it if you are interested in something.


www.brendanhoffman.com Washington, DC, USA

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