My work explores familiar and contested realms such as borders, memory, and the body, through the lens of diasporic experience and fluid identities.
With roots in social sciences and documentary photography, I often combine portraiture, archival materials, collage, and field recordings to build layered, intimate investigations. My practice is based on process, with projects unfolding gradually over months or years.
I also facilitate image-based and self-publishing workshops that center participatory knowledge exchange. This educational work isn't separate from my art practice; both explore how creative and intellectual exchange can build solidarity and mutual support across individuals and communities.
Teaching
2025 Eigenseiten, weekly printing and book binding workshop, Bona Peiser, Berlin
2022 Our body/selves, self-portraiture workshop with Stephanie Telomere, UdK Berlin
Studies
2022 Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin
2017 Il libro fotografico. Culture, progetti, professioni, pratiche, SISF, Pieve Tesino, Italy
2016 Master’s Degree (with honors) in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Univ. of Vienna
2011 Bachelor’s Degree in Political Sciences, Univ. of Trieste
Group Exhibitions
2025 Re-Membering: Traces of Armenian life in the diaspora, Villa Oppenheim, Berlin
2023 Loss, Soft Eis Magazine, 90mil, Berlin
2023 A sense of place, Photographic Exploration Project, Berlin
2022 One eye sees, the other feels, Zone Magazine, Daste, Bergamo
2022 Fünfzehn, Ostekreuzschule für Fotografie, Quartier 206, Berlin
2021 Rain Makes Little Lakes, Bivy, Anchorage, Alaska
2021 Die Rose ist ohne Warum, Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg, Germany
2020 Transitions, Rotterdam Photo Festival
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Denali Thai Food, Bivy, Anchorage, Alaska
Collaborative Projects
2018 Bakunin, theatre performance, premiered at the Swamp Pavilion, Venice Biennale of Architecture and Laboratorio Artistico Pietra, Torino
Grants
2024–25 Eigenseiten, Berliner Projektsfonds Kulturelle Bildung
2022 Interflugs’ Project Funding initiative, Universität der Kunste, Berlin
Selected Features and Visual Publications
2025 The Prince Edit, Volume I, A/W 2025
2024 On Envy, by fffllleeessshhh
2024 POP Adriatico – Porto Osservatorio Partecipato, Adriatico Book Club
2023 Softeis Magazine, ISSUE03
2023 Chronographies and the experience of transience by Steve Bisson, published on Urbanautica, Journal of Visual Anthropology and Cultural Landscapes
2022 Edited, selected graduates from the International Center of Photography in New York and the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin
Selected Academic Publications
2019 ‘Between archive and repertoire: The Ju|’hoansi San Living Museum in Grashoek,’ in W. Zips and M. Zips-Mairitsch (eds), Bewildering Borders: The Economy of Conservation in Africa, pp. 121-135, Berlin and Zürich: LIT Verlag
2018 ‘Trespassing Borders: Encounters and Resistances in Performance Art,’ in T. Fillitz and P. van der Grijp (eds), An Anthropology of Contemporary Art: Practices, Markets, and Collectors, pp. 163-178, London: Bloomsbury
2017 “On participation, beyond participation: a conversation with Maya Quattropani”, roots§routes – research on visual cultures, No 24 | January – April
2016 “Intertwining discourses: a visual history of bodies”, roots§routes – research on visual cultures, No 22 | May – August
Selected Talks
2018 ‘Attempts at collaboration between ethnography and performance (or: how to fail better?),’ in Art, Materiality and Representation conference by Royal Anthropological Institute, British Museum, London
2016 ‘Trespassing borders: encounters and collaborations in performance art,’ in Anthropological legacies and human futures conference by the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Univ. of Milano-Bicocca
2014 (with G. Palekaite) ‘The performing body-in-space through the lens: The Living Museum in Namibia,’ in Anthropology and Photography conference by Royal Anthropological Institute, British Museum, London
(Last update: September 2025)
With roots in social sciences and documentary photography, I often combine portraiture, archival materials, collage, and field recordings to build layered, intimate investigations. My practice is based on process, with projects unfolding gradually over months or years.
I also facilitate image-based and self-publishing workshops that center participatory knowledge exchange. This educational work isn't separate from my art practice; both explore how creative and intellectual exchange can build solidarity and mutual support across individuals and communities.
Teaching
2025 Eigenseiten, weekly printing and book binding workshop, Bona Peiser, Berlin
2022 Our body/selves, self-portraiture workshop with Stephanie Telomere, UdK Berlin
Studies
2022 Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin
2017 Il libro fotografico. Culture, progetti, professioni, pratiche, SISF, Pieve Tesino, Italy
2016 Master’s Degree (with honors) in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Univ. of Vienna
2011 Bachelor’s Degree in Political Sciences, Univ. of Trieste
Group Exhibitions
2025 Re-Membering: Traces of Armenian life in the diaspora, Villa Oppenheim, Berlin
2023 Loss, Soft Eis Magazine, 90mil, Berlin
2023 A sense of place, Photographic Exploration Project, Berlin
2022 One eye sees, the other feels, Zone Magazine, Daste, Bergamo
2022 Fünfzehn, Ostekreuzschule für Fotografie, Quartier 206, Berlin
2021 Rain Makes Little Lakes, Bivy, Anchorage, Alaska
2021 Die Rose ist ohne Warum, Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg, Germany
2020 Transitions, Rotterdam Photo Festival
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Denali Thai Food, Bivy, Anchorage, Alaska
Collaborative Projects
2018 Bakunin, theatre performance, premiered at the Swamp Pavilion, Venice Biennale of Architecture and Laboratorio Artistico Pietra, Torino
Grants
2024–25 Eigenseiten, Berliner Projektsfonds Kulturelle Bildung
2022 Interflugs’ Project Funding initiative, Universität der Kunste, Berlin
Selected Features and Visual Publications
2025 The Prince Edit, Volume I, A/W 2025
2024 On Envy, by fffllleeessshhh
2024 POP Adriatico – Porto Osservatorio Partecipato, Adriatico Book Club
2023 Softeis Magazine, ISSUE03
2023 Chronographies and the experience of transience by Steve Bisson, published on Urbanautica, Journal of Visual Anthropology and Cultural Landscapes
2022 Edited, selected graduates from the International Center of Photography in New York and the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin
Selected Academic Publications
2019 ‘Between archive and repertoire: The Ju|’hoansi San Living Museum in Grashoek,’ in W. Zips and M. Zips-Mairitsch (eds), Bewildering Borders: The Economy of Conservation in Africa, pp. 121-135, Berlin and Zürich: LIT Verlag
2018 ‘Trespassing Borders: Encounters and Resistances in Performance Art,’ in T. Fillitz and P. van der Grijp (eds), An Anthropology of Contemporary Art: Practices, Markets, and Collectors, pp. 163-178, London: Bloomsbury
2017 “On participation, beyond participation: a conversation with Maya Quattropani”, roots§routes – research on visual cultures, No 24 | January – April
2016 “Intertwining discourses: a visual history of bodies”, roots§routes – research on visual cultures, No 22 | May – August
Selected Talks
2018 ‘Attempts at collaboration between ethnography and performance (or: how to fail better?),’ in Art, Materiality and Representation conference by Royal Anthropological Institute, British Museum, London
2016 ‘Trespassing borders: encounters and collaborations in performance art,’ in Anthropological legacies and human futures conference by the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Univ. of Milano-Bicocca
2014 (with G. Palekaite) ‘The performing body-in-space through the lens: The Living Museum in Namibia,’ in Anthropology and Photography conference by Royal Anthropological Institute, British Museum, London
(Last update: September 2025)
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