Anatomy of a Protest
The oeuvre of photographer Avetik Hovhannisyan (1960-1988) is unknown to the wider public, yet Hovhannisyan’s first exhibition, curated by Vigen Galstyan for the EVN Media Festival, revealed the remarkable documentary significance of his tragically short-lived career. With the onset of “Perestroika” and the Karabakh Freedom Movement, the young photographer was on the streets of Yerevan everyday. His extensive archive consists of over a thousand negatives and prints depicting this tumultuous period in Soviet and Armenian history.










