{"id":133795,"date":"2025-03-14T21:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/photographer-diana-markosians-search-for-her-long-lost-father\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T21:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:39:06","slug":"photographer-diana-markosians-search-for-her-long-lost-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=133795","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Diana Markosian\u2019s search for her long lost father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tcocdn.com\/tco\/images\/Huck\/Markosian_Father-HGG001.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>But Markosian never gave up searching for the man she barely knew, his face carefully cut from many of the photographs brought over from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huckmag.com\/article\/nadia-sablins-photos-counter-the-narrative-of-putins-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Russia<\/a>. His memory became a spectre \u2013 the presence of absence that weighed heavily on her soul, while she searched the faces of strangers passing on the street, hoping one day that he might appear.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Markosian, then 24, and her brother travelled to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huckmag.com\/article\/seven-sleepless-days-moscows-weird-wonderful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Moscow<\/a> and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huckmag.com\/article\/travel-diary-armenia-genocide-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Armenia<\/a>, determined to find him \u2013 only to do just that. \u201cI didn\u2019t recognise him. He didn\u2019t recognise me,\u201d Markosian remembers of the first time they met. She spoke freely, telling him what she had gleaned from her mother over the years: they had been abandoned for another woman. But none of that was true, and suddenly she was faced with having to unlearn everything she had come to believe about a man she never really knew.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read next: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huckmag.com\/article\/diana-markosian?next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Building bridges to the past with survivors of the Armenian Genocide<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With <em>Father<\/em>, the new <a href=\"https:\/\/aperture.org\/books\/diana-markosian-father\/?gad_source=1&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwvr--BhB5EiwAd5YbXs4LRUY4ArFyN6nwdl3_6i_HfmBqc01vgV2e_FtW1oBn2CrYIzpp3hoChyUQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">book<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foam.org\/events\/diana-markosian-father\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exhibition<\/a>, Markosian crafts a heartrending story of grief, love, and loss \u2013 of wounds that time can never heal but instead are carried within as a kind of alchemy. Seamlessly weaving portrait, interior, still life, family photos, candy-coloured stills from home movies, personal correspondence, and official documents of her father\u2019s fruitless search for his children over the years, <em>Father <\/em>is a complicated portrait of a man who is both memory and flesh bound in the complex archetype of fatherhood.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Markosian never gave up searching for the man she barely knew, his face carefully cut from many of the photographs brought over from Russia. 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