Since 2014 - Founder and Art Director of art collective LIVE WILD Since 2014 - Co-founder of publishing house Orpheus Standing Alone 2011 - Project assistant on Bongo Fever by Chien-Chi Chang 2010 - Editorial assistant / Magnum Photos, Paris 2009 - Intern / Tendance Floue agency, Paris 2007 / 2008 - Photography Instructor, SPFA, (Yerevan, Gyumri) Armenia
COMPETITIONS, PRIZES, RESIDENCIES
2024_
ADAGP artistic research Grant - Laureate
Research residency ECPAD x ADAGP - Winner
2023_
Ph Museum Grant, 3rd Prize - Winner
Publishing Grant (sociocultural project of publication), Partir en Livre, Centre National du Livre - Laureate
2022_
Star Photobook Dummy Award - Nominated
MEP x SPBH Residency - Laureate
The Voice X Vogue Residency - Selected participant
2021_
Star Photobook Dummy Award - Nominated
2020_
Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography - Nominated
Paul Huf Award - Nominated
Prix Picto Mode - Prix des métiers d’arts 19M - Winner
Han Nefkens Foundation Video Art Production Award - Nominated Prix HSBC for Photography - Nominated
Plat(t)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur - Selected participant
2019_
Vence Award for Contemporary Photography - Winner Spotlight Award, Belfast Photo Festival - Winner La Scam / Brouillon d'un rêve Images Fixes - Shortlisted Prix Résidence BMW - Finalist Paul Huf Award - Nominated C/O Berlin Talent Award - Nominated / Finalist Gibellina Photoroad Project Prize - Winner Fotografia Europea Award - Winner Images Vevey Award - Shortlisted
2018_
Emerging Talents / Fotografia Emergente MACRO -Winner La bourse du talent - Finalist The News Vanguard - Finalist Bird In Flight Prize - Finalist Voies Off, Arles - Laureate
Singapore International Photography Festival Portfolio Showcase - Laureate
Ph Museum Grant - Finalist Debuts, Emerging Photographers - Laureate Lucie Foundation Fine Art Scholarship - Finalist Magenta Flash Forward - Laureate
2017_
Emerging Talents / Fotografia Emergente MACRO - Finalist Festival de Mode et de Photographie, Hyères - Finalist Prix Maison Blanche - Laureate Cosmos Award - Finalist Voies OFF/Circulations, Arles, France - Laureate Show Off, Krakow Photomonth - Winner Lucie Foundation Award - Finalist
2016_
Live Studio Award , Metronom Gallery - Winner
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024_ Tsavt Tanem, Abri Mémoire, Uffholtz, France
2023_ Kilim Me Softly, Unrepresented, Le Molière, Paris, France
2022_ Familiar Gestures, l’Atelier, Quinzaine Photographique Nantais, Nantes, France Picto Prize, le 19M, Aubervilliers, France
Tsvat Tanem, CRP, Douchy-les-Mines, France
2021_ Summit Meeting, Maison de l’Internationale, Grenoble, France
2019_ Summit Meeting, Chapelle des pénitents blancs, Vence, France Summit Meeting, Centre du patrimoine Arménien, Valence, France
2018_
The Price Of A Black Life In America, SiFest, Savignano, Italy With All This Darkness Round Me I Feel Less Alone, SiFest, Savignano, Italy Familiar Gestures, Mucho Mas Gallery, Torino, Italy In Search Of The Father, In Other Image, When Words Fail, Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore Infinite Travels, Getxo Photo Festival, Gexto, Spain Staring Quietly At The Backwash, MOCA, Odessa - Ukraine Menq Enq Mer Sarere, Playground Studio, London, UK
2017_ Live Wild booth, Co-Op UNSEEN , Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2 016_ Live Wild, Fotopub, Novo Mesto, Slovenia
2015_ Menq Enq Mer Sarere, Ofr Gallery, Paris, France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024_ Le 19M à Marseille, Fort Saint Jean, MUCEM, Marseille, France
2023_ Nos Découvertes, La Fab, Paris, France Les À Coté.e.s, centre d’art Immanence, Paris, France Les Arts Arméniens / Regards Croisés, ARP, Paris, France Mystérieux sentiments Maison de la photographie des Landes, France Œuvres en résidence, Espace des Arts de Pavillons-sous-Bois, France (dans le cadre du programme de la Collection départementale d'art contemporain de Seine-Saint-Denis)
2022_
Le CRP Hors les Murs, Le Phénix, Valenciennes, France Body Fluid, The Steidz Project Room, Paris, France
Art For All, Miami Art Week, Miami, Arizona, USA Menk, Center For Contemporary Art, Mont de Marsan, France
2021_ Picto Prize, French Institute, Chengdu, China Summit Meeting, Biennale de L’image Tangible, Floréal Belleville, Paris, France Reality Check, Jeune Création, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville, France
Summit Meeting, The Makeable Mind / Noordelicht festival, Pictura gallery, Groening, The Netherlands Source Material, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, United-States The Permanent Collection of Fondazione Orestiadi, Fondazione Orestiadi, Gibellina, Italy Wild Ones, K-Gold Gallery, Lesvos, Greece Odessa Photo Days / Phroom, Odessa, Ukraine
2020_ Summit Meeting, VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia
Armenia Art Fair, Yerevan, Armenia
2019_
Woven Matters, UNSEEN, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Faces of Freedom, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia
Beyond Language, Kiraathane, Istanbul, Turkey Small Formats, Archive Collective Gallery, Montreal, Canada Menq Enq Mer Sarere, Das Vierte Haus, Neues Kunsthaus, Ahrenstoop, Germany The Awakening, Archive Collective Gallery, Montreal, Canada The Tapestry In My Room, Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, Irlande The Tapestry In My Room, Fotografia Europea, Fondazione Palazzo Magnani, Italy The Invention of Memory, Photo Ireland, Dublin, Irlande
2018_ Infinite Travels, Emerging talents, Mattatoio, Rome, Italy Photo Vogue Festival, BASE, Milan, Italy Bird In Flight Talents, Kiyv Photo Fair, Kiev, Ukraine The New Vanguard, Aperture Foundation, New-York, USA The Age Of Love, Dong Gang Photo Festival, Dong Gang, South Korea Infinite Travels, LA Month Of Photography, Los Angeles, USA Self reflection, NIDA Synopsium, Vilnus, Lithuania Obscura Photo Festival, George Town, Malaysia Standard Visions, Marriot Westwood, Los Angeles, USA Refuse/Refuge, York National Gallery, York - UK
In Sonora Festival, Madrid - Spain Momentum, Comodo64, Torino, Italy Thessaloniki Photo Biennale, Greece Motus Operandi, Miminum Gallery, Palermo, Italy Debuts, Lodz Photo Festival, Lodz, Poland Juxtaposition, Galerie Blanc, Montreal, Canada Momemtum, Minimum Galerie, Palermo, Italy SKG Bridge Photo Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
Circulation(s), le 104, Paris, France
2017_ In Search Of The Father, Prix Maison Blanche, Marseille, France New Talents, Red Hook Labs, New-York, USA Cosmos Award, La Croisère, Arles, France With All This Darkness Round Me I Feel Less Alone, Malmö Fotobiennal, Malmö, Sweden With All This Darkness Round Me I Feel Less Alone, Riga Photomonth, Riga, Lettonia With All This Darkness Round Me I Feel Less Alone, Show Off, Krakow Photomonth Festival, Krakow, Poland With All This Darkness Round Me I Feel Less Alone, International Fashion & Photography Festival Hyères, France Universal Truth - Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb, Croatia Truth II Lies, Blitz Gallery, Valetta - Malta In Search Of The Father, Still Searching, Benaki Museum, Athènes, Greece In Search Of The Father, f/4, Fondazione Fabbri, Treviso, Italy In Search Of The Father, Open Studio, Metronom Gallery, Modena, Italy
2016_
Fotokup, Brighton Photo Fringe Festival, Brighton, UK
Dock Art Fair, Lyon, France
SCREENINGS
2023_ Tsavt Tanem, PhMuseum Days (Italy), Verzasca Foto (Switzerland) and Jakarta International Photography Festival (Indonesia)
2022_
Where Rude Boys Never Think To Look, Accident(s) Art Fair, Cité des Arts, Paris, France
Voice x Vogue, PhotoVogue, Milan, Italy Where Rude Boys Never Think To Look, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
2018_ The Tapestry In My Room, Voies OFF, Arles, France The Tapestry In My Room, The Night Of Photography, Tbilisi, Georgia The Tapestry In My Room, GUP x Breda Photo, Breda, The Netherlands The Tapestry In My Room, Tiff Festival, Wroclaw, Poland
2017_ The Tapestry In My Room, Voies OFF/Circulations, Arles, France
TALKS, WORKSHOPS, EDUCATIONAL POSITION
2024_
Guest artist, Elles Font la Culture x The Eyes Podcast Artist Talk with Gaze Magazine, Female Gaze : l'envers du décor, Festival Empow’Her, Le 104, Paris, France
Workshop Les Couleurs de Matisse, Centre Social Nelson Mandela, with Art en Partage association, Romainville, France Workshop, Raconter son Histoire, Galerie Roger Viollet x Le service de protection judiciaire de la jeunesse, Montreuil, France
Workshop at Centre Social Espace 19 with La Source association, Paris, France
Workshop at MECS Manin with La Source association, Paris, France
2023_2024 Le Grand Tour, Workshop with the SEGPA class of Sédar Senghor secondary school in Corbeil Essonnes, in collaboration with Le Louvre and Le Bal
2023_ Artist Talk in the Frame of ‘Photographie en migration : images et récits personnels’ at MUCEM, Marseille, France
VIP Tour, Studio visit with PARIS PHOTO, Paris, France
Workshop at Maison de Quartier Le Trois Mats with La Source association, Bourg-la-Reine, France
Workshop at Centre communal d'action sociale of Cachan with La Source association, Cachan, France
2022_
Artist Talk MEP x SPBH, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Journée d’Etudes ‘Accompagner les artistes’ Fondation de France, Paris, France
Masterclass ‘Photographie et mémoires’, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Artist Talk, ‘Waiting for my Big Break’, Ecole Supérieure d’Arts, Tourcoing, France
Artist Talk, Journée d’études ‘Image(s), enfance(s), archive(s)’, Galerie Commune, Tourcoing Workshop, ‘Mémoire photographique’, Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France, Douchy-les-Mines, France Alpasor, Workshop in an Ulys class program with Orange Rouge organization, Daniel Meyer secondary school, Paris, France
Workshop ‘Photos de famille : réinventer son histoire’, Le Labo de l’Univers, Lille
Workshop ‘Mini Club Photo’, Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France, Douchy-les-Mines, France
2021_
Mentoring position / HKU University of the Arts for the Keep an Eye Foundation program, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Artist Talk, Redeye Lightbox Program, Collective Startegies, Manchester, UK
2020_ Artist Talk, IED Milano, Milan, Italy Workshop, La Fabrique du regard / CHU d’Ivry, Le Bal, Paris, France
2019_
The Eyes Artist Talks / Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, France Artist Talk, Meeting Point #3 'Traversées', Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France Conseil Scientifique "Chercheurs/Artistes", CPA, Valence, France
2018_ Artist Talk with curator Christian Gattinoni, Si Fest, Savignano, Italy
2017_ Artist Talk with curator Lars Willumeit, UNSEEN, The Netherlands
2016_ Artist Talk w ith curator Ilaria Speri, Fotopub, Slovenia
COLLECTIONS
FRAC Meca, France
Agnès.b / Galerie du Jour
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, France Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France, France
19M, France
Fondazione Orestiadi, Italy
Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise, France
PICTO, France
Palais Galliera, Paris, France Winterthur Photo Museum, Switzerland Collection départementale d'art contemporain, Saint Denis, France Villa Noailles, Hyères, France Photography and Multimedia Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia Private collections in FR / NL / USA / IT / UK / BE / CA / IR
BOOKS / CATALOGUES
2025 - (upcoming) In Search Of The Father, Delpire & Co 2024 - Lesage, collection les petits livres du 19M, Le 19M
2023 - Natsumi et le Papillon Magique, La Source, France 2021 - Biennale de l’Image Tangible, Plateforme Editions, France 2019 - Fisheye Photobook, Fisheye editions, France 2019 - Fotografia Europea, Gli Ori, Italie 2019 - Time, Nude, Insane, Blue, Details, Edicola, Italy 2018 - Postconflict - Reframing A Dialogue, GextoPhoto, Spain 2018 - Circulations, Le Bec en l’air, France 2018 - Family, Space, Orange, Water, Journey, Edicola, Italy 2018 - Debuts, Blow Up Press, Poland 2018 - DongGang Intentional Photo Festival, South Korea 2018 - Go Straight Until You Find The Sea, K-Gold Gallery, Greece 2018 - On Being Now, Pazzani Editore, Italy 2017 - The Society Of Spectacle, Fotografi Focus, Sweden
2017 - Familiar Gestures, Self Published 2017 - 32nd International Festival of Fashion and Photography, Villa Noailles 2015 - Menq Enq Mer Sarere (We Are Our Mountains), Orpheus Standing Alone
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2024 _ The Eyes - France
Libération - France
2023_ Marie Claire - France
Quotidien de l’Art - France
2019_
Télérama - France Objektiv Magazine - Sweden C/o Berlin Newspaper - Germany Irish Times - Ireland Personne Magazine - Italy Edicola Magazine - Italy
2018_
FOAM Magazine - The Netherlands Ordinary Magazine - The Netherlands M le Monde - France Freitag - Germany El Pais - Spain Internazionale - Italy Libération - France IMA - Japan Freq Magazine - UK Vostok - South Korea Carnet d'Art - France Paper Journal - UK GUP - The Netherlands
2017_
Photography Is Art - Japan American Chortada - USA Cactus Magazine - Italy Edicola Magazine - Italy Glamcult Magazine - UK Unseen Magazine - The Netherlands Sova Magazine - Poland
2016_
Issue 4, Neptun - Iceland Tough Luck, Meanwhile Press - UK Issue 20, Fisheye Magazine - France Issue 2, The Steidz - France Issue 5, Recens Paper - Sweden Issue 1, Banshee - UK Le Branché - France La Chose, Michel Lafon - France Issue 9, Der Greif - Germany Modern Weekly China - China Issue 2, Paint By Number - UK Locals, Meanwhile Press - UK
2015_
WOMEN, Issue 13, Musée Magazine - USA Esquire - Russia
SELECTED ONLINE PUBLICATIONS / FEATURES / INTERVIEWS
2024_ Tique Art
PhMuseum
2023_ Quotidien de l’Art
Ph Museum
Les Echos
Fisheye Magazine
ArtNews Paper
2022_ Telerama
La Voix du Nord L’Oeil de la Photographie
2021_
De correspondant Lense Magazine It’s Nice That
2020_ Perspective (podcast)
Musee Magazine
France Info
Le Point
Réponse Photo
Numéro Magazine
The Atlantic
Phroom Magazine
Photoworks
YET Magazine
2019_ Rolling Stones Italy
Photoworks
It's Nice That
Landscapes Stories Metal Magazine
Yogurt Magazine
Ain't Bad
2018_ Aperture
L'Oeil de la photographie
Nouvelles d'Arménie
Tracks (Arte) Filet Magazine
Freq Magazine
Vogue France
Fisheye Magazine It's Nice That
The Cut
PH Museum
Vogue Italy
Tissue Magazin_Artribune
Another Magazine
2017_ Artsy
Edicola
Broad Magazine
Fantom
Manifesto XXI
Office Magazine Another Magazine
The Calvert Journal
Numero
Art Narratives
Les Inrocks Inside Art
Noisey World
Konbini
i-D
British Journal Of Photography Hunger Magazine
Metal Magazine
Coeval
The Heavy Collective
Artwort
2016_ Yet Magazine Ain't Bad Dazed and Confused Der Greif Zeit Magazine Trace TV Lenscratch Osso Magazine The Calvert Journal Sora Magazine Generazione Critica TRIP Arcademi Plantation Journal Fisheye Magazine
2015_ GUP Magazine Format Magazine Musée Magazine Amuse Hafny The Editorial Magazine Phosmag Dazed and Confused PhotoArt Magazine Plateforme Magazine Steadfast Arte PHROOM Magazine Stolen Ground L'Oeil De La Photographie
CLIENTS / COMMISIONS
Lesage (FR), Libération (FR), Centre Pompidou (FR), Le Louvre (FR), 19M (FR), Premiere Vision (FR), De Correspondant (NL), The Atlantic (USA), Le Bal (FR), Ordinary (UK), Photoworks (UK), M le Monde (FR), Télérama (FR), Style (UK), Destinations (DE), Esquire (RU), Armenews (FR), UNHCR (AM), Apply (US), French Embassy (AM), Artshakh (FR), La Chose (FR), Le Branché (FR)