Yerevan has a new kind of billboard: people. As human advertisements take to the city’s streets, Isaac Stephenson looks beyond the novelty to ask what their presence says about advertising, public space, visual pollution and the increasingly creative ways brands compete for our attention.

Beyond its abandoned factories and Soviet industrial past, Vanadzor is home to a small but thriving community of artists and artisans. Isaac Stephenson meets the craftspeople whose work is quietly reshaping the identity of Armenia's often-overlooked third city.