Tag: Yan Shenkman

February 21, 2024
Monologues: The Homes They Lost in Artsakh

Monologues: The Homes They Lost in Artsakh

“The story of the house began with a smile and ended with tears,” writes Yan Shenkman, a Russian journalist, who moved to Armenia after the war in Ukraine started. He compiled monologues from the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh for an upcoming exhibition about the homes they lost.

July 21, 2023
Memory Erases Memory

Memory Erases Memory

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.