Mental Health

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