Through a series of unfinished questions, photographer Vaghinak Ghazaryan’s photo essay explores the lasting emotional imprint of the 44-day war on the soldiers who lived through it, tracing memory, loss and the difficult process of carrying war into everyday life.

A portrait of Noratus fishermen on Lake Sevan reveals nights of cold, risk and fragile livelihoods, following Armen and Vardan as they navigate storms, shrinking catches and limited choices, capturing a community bound to the lake for survival and dignity.

Once Yerevan’s largest and oldest fruit orchards, the Dalma Gardens stretched from Tsitsernakaberd hill to the Zvartnots Cathedral. Today, fragments of green remain amid concrete, but the memory of centaureas and ancient vines evokes a vanished natural and cultural heritage.

Ilya Putilya came to Yerevan from Luhansk after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Putilya’s war, however, started in 2014. He says he is often taken for a Russian in Armenia; when he says he’s Ukrainian, many, it seems, want to change the subject.

Photojournalist Vaghinak Ghazaryan and Russian writer and journalist Yan Shenkman explore notions of immigration, exile, perhaps even sojourner through images and words to describe the challenges of leaving one life to start another one in a new country.

Children who were separated from their families because of Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin Corridor, were finally able to return home to Artsakh after 47 days. They shared their thoughts before their long-awaited reunion.

A photo essay by Vaghinak Ghazaryan about teachers Stepan and Mariam and their recounting of the 2020 Artsakh War. A story that has to be continued before it is told, as Stepan is once again on the frontlines.

After losing his job, photojournalist Vaghinak Ghazaryan, started driving a taxi. Combining his love of cars with his love of photography, he began capturing images of his passengers through the rearview mirror.

In this photo story, photojournalist Vaghinak Ghazaryan writes that his personal connection to the Genocide is the story of his step-grandfather, a quiet man who survived by hiding among corpses.