In April of this year I was invited by the Primate of the Armenian Church in the UK , Bishop Vahan Hovhanessian, to make a presentation to the community in London; the subject I chose to present on was “An… Read More ›
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25 Voices from Artsakh are heard in London
A very powerful way of changing the perception that people have of unknown areas of the world from blank, grey, faceless, and foreign zones into something centred around real people, evoking real human emotions, is through personal stories. The “25… Read More ›
Photojournalism 3.0: Beyond commoditisation
Painting for centuries was the only medium by which a person’s portrait, a beautiful landscape, or a pictorial idea could be captured. The art form moved slowly but discernibly from a poor two-dimensional representation of the subject where the artist… Read More ›
Mass photography at demonstrations is in danger of becoming an unwitting agent provocateur
Over the last few years the rise in relatively cheap, but professional standard, digital cameras, and free and cheap publication of images on the internet has fuelled the evolution of the freelance/citizen/amateur photojournalist. Some would say that this has liberated… Read More ›
Photo Story : Chernobyl – 22 years later
The ill-fated Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant in the north of Ukraine. On 26 April 1986, an unauthorised system test went horribly wrong and resulted in a “meltdown” and fire. A plume of radioactive material exploded into… Read More ›
Why are you taking my picture? Life in the grey zone of photography.
Although I have had a camera for most of my life, it is only in the last 3 years that I have had a quality camera. It is at this point that I expanded my range of photographic subjects from… Read More ›
