By Anna Davtyan

Let’s define a country: post-Soviet – which Armenia is; post war – like the one in Nagorno Karabakh that remains unresolved up to now; post traumatic – as after the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Developing. Provincial. In transition. Eastern. European. Small. Riddled with corruption. In love. Sad. Having fun. In a relationship with photography.

Photography mostly follows these definitions. But this photography series is an attempt to creep into the plane of the inner pattern of a country, to reveal the things residing in-between, things that don’t get photographed. Those are the strange, the queer, the sadly fun, the cheerfully sad, the buzzing, the buzz.

 


Yerevan, 2011

 


Yerevan, 2014

 


Armavir, 2017

 


Yerevan, 2017

 


Yerevan, 2011

 

 


Yerevan, 2010

 


Panik, 2012

 


Yerevan, 2011

 

 


Armavir, 2017

 

 


Yerevan, 2007

 


Bjni, 2017

 


Armavir, 2017

 


Harich, 2008

 


Dzityankov, 2013

 

This is a small selection of a bigger portrait of a country, on which I am working for years now. Here are the relationships and the transitional points between people, time and space. An eye seeing from the inside, a follower, a lover. Things interact. Things interweave. Love happens. Let’s define love.

 

* This is also the title of the ‘oral novel’ by the writer Marine Petrossian. “On the Seashore of Armenia”, actual a, Yerevan, 2006