Diana Markosian, winner of the 9th Photo Prix Madame Figaro at Arles Meetings

The short breath and the tied voice, Diana Markosian does not come back to receive the prize for the photo Madame Figaro from the hands of Isabelle Adjani, the president of the jury, herself “still under emotion” aroused by “autobiographical work at the universal echo”. In addition, A few hours earlier. Moreover, and a few kilometers from the diana markosian, winner 9th photo ancient theater in Arles, his project Father was indeed unanimous during the deliberations held at the Mas de la Fouque. Therefore, Presented at Espace Monoprix as part of the 56th edition of the Arles meetings. he summons a ghost, Diana Markosian’s father, suddenly out of his life: in 1996, the artist was seven years old when her mother wakes her up in the middle of the night, she and her brother David. “The Soviet Union had been collapsed for a long time. and my family too,” recalls the one that a plane then takes away for California, far from its native Russia and his father, warned by a word left in the kitchen, and since remained without news.

“During most of my life. my father was nothing more than a silhouette in our family album,” explains the self -taught, citing the sum of portraits cut by his mother, as diana markosian, winner 9th photo if to oust him from the annals. “I was so angry with her. that I had to understand her to move forward,” said this story-teller including the first project Santa Barbara Revisited history struck by his arrival in the United States, like a self-fiction. The fact remains that the man she finds in Armenia after fifteen years of research has everything from a stranger. The film. photography will provide the daughter and the father with the means to reconnect, for lack of being able to catch up with lost time. Archive. news, fixed or in motion, with or without colors, sad but tender images compose a story inhabited by absence, and the mad hope of a shared future.

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Diana Markosian won an endowment of 10,000 diana markosian, winner 9th photo euros thanks to Kering’s support, and her Women in Motion program, as well as a shooting of a fashion series to be published in Madame Figaro. The Photo Prix Madame Figaro is accompanied by Fnac and luxury cosmetics Augustinus Bader.

Diana Markosian, Father, Until October 5, at Arles Meetings. Dating-arles.com