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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Free lance photographer, journalist, 1988-present
                             
AWARDS and GRANTS:

2005   Yerevan Press Club. Annual Award 
2005    Media Diversity Institute. Special Prize for social photography
2002    Hasselblad Foundation, Sweden (Fellowship recipient)
2002    Fifty Crows Foundation for Documentary Photography, San-Francisco, CA
1987	USSR Union-Wide Photography, Bronze Medal, Moscow 

EDUCATION:

1999   	                 Magnum PhotoJournalism Workshop, Yerevan, led by Larry Towell
	                 (sponsored by Open Society Institute, New York)

1996                     Magnum workshop, Yerevan, led by Susan Meiselas 
                             (sponsored by Open Society Institute, New York)

	
LANGUAGES:                     Russian (excellent), Armenian
         
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