Tag: Diana Markosian

  • Photos exploring the cost of the American dream

    Photos exploring the cost of the American dream

    Photos exploring the cost of the American dream Photographer Diana Markosian pieces together memories of moving to America from Moscow as a child in a new book. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photos-exploring-the-cost-of-the-american-dream/ When photographer Diana Markosian was younger, her mother whisked her away from Moscow to America to start a new life. In a new book,…

  • 15 Photographers on How Imagination Shapes Their Work – Aperture

    15 Photographers on How Imagination Shapes Their Work – Aperture

    15 Photographers on How Imagination Shapes Their Work Dawoud Bey, Nan Goldin, KangHee Kim and more reflect on the photograph’s potential to influence social and artistic images. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/15-photographers-on-how-imagination-shapes-their-work/ From the Magnum Square Print Sale in Partnership with Aperture, Dawoud Bey, Nan Goldin, KangHee Kim and more reflect on the photograph’s potential to influence…

  • The Documentary Photography Issue VII: Home, reimagined

    The Documentary Photography Issue VII: Home, reimagined

    The Documentary Photography Issue VII: Home, reimagined It feels as if our relationship with the idea of home is changing.  Across the world, nationalism finds itself dancing freely with far-right politics, while political divisions have chopped families right down the middle, transforming previously tight-kni via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/the-documentary-photography-issue-vii-home-reimagined/ ‘Home’ is both a physical and imagined…

  • Fantastic Photos of Chechnyan Culture From a Young Phenom

    Fantastic Photos of Chechnyan Culture From a Young Phenom

    Fantastic Photos of Chechen Culture From a Young Phenom Goodbye, My Chechnya, is Diana Markosian’s project about Muslim girls coming of age in Chechnya. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2014/02/diana-markosian/ If young photographers want to succeed, they would do well to heed this word of advice from acclaimed photographer Diana Markosian: Get as far away from the photo…

  • Magnum Photos Blog

    Magnum News From The 69Th Annual General Meeting During the four days the following membership motions were executed: • Bieke Depoorter was made a Magnum Member • Jérôme Sessini was made a Magnum Member • Diana Markosian was made a Magnum Nominee • Matt Stuart was made a Magnum Nominee

  • Rewarding Character and Reportage – NYTimes.com

    Rewarding Character and Reportage Kevin Frayer, a freelance photographer who works for Getty News in China, has won the 2015 Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund Award. Diana Markosian, 25, was selected for the fund’s emerging photojournalist award.

  • Kevin Frayer, Diana Markosian Win Chris Hondros Fund Awards | TIME

    Kevin Frayer, Diana Markosian Win Chris Hondros Fund Awards “Chris Hondros was the consummate photojournalist,” says Kevin Frayer via Time: http://time.com/3824266/kevin-frayer-diana-markosian-chris-hondros-fund/ When photojournalist Chris Hondros was killed in Libya four years ago, he left behind a legacy of award-winning images that continue to inspire photographers today. “It’s the kind of work that so many of…

  • Inside the Beslan School Siege 10 Years On – LightBox

    Inside the Beslan School Siege 10 Years On – LightBox

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/08/31/inside-the-beslan-school-siege-10-years-on/#1 It was this sense of loss and longing for answers that attracted documentary photographer Diana Markosian to Beslan

  • Estranged Photographer and Father Reunite, Collaborate on Series About Their Relationship – Feature Shoot

    Estranged Photographer and Father Reunite, Collaborate on Series About Their Relationship – Feature Shoot

    Estranged Photographer and Father Reunite, Collaborate on Series About Their Relationship – Feature Shoot Diàna Markosian grew up knowing little about her father. In photo albums compiled by her mother, he was either cropped out of the frame altogether, or left as a ghostly profile. She had last seen him when she was 7 years…

  • On Father’s Day, A Photographer Reconnects with Family – LightBox

    On Father’s Day, A Photographer Reconnects with Family – LightBox

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/06/11/fathers-day-inventing-my-father/#1 When Diana Markosian was 7 years old, her mother left her father and took Markosian and her brother from their home in Moscow to start a new life in California. “We hardly ever spoke of my father,” Markosian says. “I had no pictures of…

  • Burmese Nights | The New Yorker

    Burmese Nights | The New Yorker

    Burmese Nights Diana Markosian’s photographs of separatist conflict in Burma’s Kachin State. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/sandbox/portfolio/burma/ The photographer Diana Markosian recently travelled to Kachin State, a remote region in northern Burma that has played host to an anti-government insurgency for the past five decades.

  • diana markosian – my father the stranger

    Diana Markosian – My Father the Stranger Diana Markosian My Father The Stranger [ EPF 2013 RECIPIENT ] I knocked on the door of a stranger. I’ve traveled halfway around the world to meet him. My father. I was seven years old when I … via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/06/diana-markosian-my-father-the-stranger/ This is my attempt to piece…

  • A Daughter’s Search for an Invisible Presence

    A Daughter’s Search for an Invisible Presence

    A Daughter’s Search for an Invisible Presence At age 7, Diana Markosian would look at the sky and wonder if her father was on each passing plane. Years later, she went in search of him, seeking answers in adulthood that she never got as a child. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/15/a-daughters-search-for-an-absent-father/ When Diana Markosian was 7,…