Tom Vartabedian

No Rest for the Energized Scout Tufankjian

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (A.W.)—After taking the most popular photo on Facebook and most re-Tweeted tweet in history, what’s next for Scout Tufankjian?

Photographer Scout Tufankjian photographs President Barack Obama during the last presidential campaign.
Photographer Scout Tufankjian photographs President Barack Obama during the last presidential campaign.

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Tom Vartabedian

Tom Vartabedian is a retired journalist with the Haverhill Gazette, where he spent 40 years as an award-winning writer and photographer. He has volunteered his services for the past 46 years as a columnist and correspondent with the Armenian Weekly, where his pet project was the publication of a special issue of the AYF Olympics each September.

4 Comments

  1. Congrats to Scout.

    Of course, Obama is a genocide denier and liar.

    By the way, Obama telephones Prime Minister Erdogan more than he does any other foreign leader because Obama is afraid of Erdogan’s nasty temper.

    A side comment: Many of us prefer to use the term “Armenian Plateau” or “Western Armenia” instead of Anatolia.

  2. Thanks for allowing us to get to know Scout, another IrlandaHye.
    Being in Canada, I am not sure I can easily find on the web the winning photo(s) that you refer to. Is it possible to have a web-link to it?

  3. Scout’s favorite “Vacation spot” is Istanbul?

    I don’t get it.

    I could understand Armenia, Western Armenia, Paris, Rome, or even Aleppo, but Istanbul?

  4. Thanks Tom!

    And to answer your questions – Antoine, you can see the pictures from the campaign here:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom.

    And Dave – it’s an edited version of an answer I gave saying that my favorite vacation was the week I spent in Istanbul and the Princes Islands with my husband right before we got married, so it’s referring to my favorite vacation, rather than my favorite vacation spot.

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