The Wall
Nazik Armenakyan, Piruza Khalapyanhttps://youtu.be/CuoyzNCjEZw
There are edifies that are still standing despite the wear and tear and being abandoned. Even though time has not affected these buildings externally, the epoch has left its distinctive marks and changed their functions by deteriorating inner surfaces and leaving only images of...
“When do you think to return?” is a photography project by 4Plus. Documentary photographers Nazik Armenakyan, Piruza Khalapyan, and Vaghinak Ghazaryan have created photo and video essays, documenting the new reality that emerged as a consequence of Russia-Ukraine war, which forced ...
It’s something that many people around the world know only too well – war is only half the story. And it’s something the people of Armenia have known for a long, long time.
This project, Post-War Truths, explores the most recent aftermath that broods over the country today – the f...
My route often passes through Isakov Avenue. I see the area of Yerablur continuing to expand. The cemetery is running out of space with the new graves extending towards the avenue.
A feeling of uncertainty is roaming in the city after war in search of an emotional refuge. Yer...
Throughout my conscious and professional life, whatever I did had to deal with the Turks and the Azeris, and that’s normal, because that’s our fate. Because you must look at the map and cry, you must say this is such a wicked thing, we are between the Turks and the Azeris, but ...
It resumed that day, in the morning… For me, the war didn’t end.
After the 2016 war… It resumed in 2020.
On our ...
At first I didn’t understand what the sound was, because I didn’t serve in the army. Never have I heard the sound of a rifle. I remember that I placed the laptop bag over my head and started to look for a shelter (we were told there was a bomb shelter on either side of the buil...
On September 27, when I learnt what was going on, I packed my suitcase immediately and left for Stepanakert on the first day… Azatamartikneri Street. It was empty, dark, without a sound, as if I were in a ghost city and the sound of my suitcase echoed across the street. This wa...
War was always likely to occur, but I couldn’t have imagined such an outcome...
You take your belongings and leave the house, and so it begins… Psychologically, you start to accept that you are ...
The war started when I saw Miko off.
Before that, I had no fear. It was then, when I felt scared, because I saw Miko, then talked to you, Nazik and you told me to be attentive and take care of hi...
I took three pieces of clothes, my camera with a discharged battery pack, and the worst lens… I left the house and set off…
․․․When the Azerbaijani forces hit Martuni, it was very close - five me...