These photographs of Armenian women are a very small part of a
very large personal project about Armenia. The project itself was
ongoing for five years with many visits to the country, during
which the country itself, with its architecture and landscape and
the people of it have been the subject. The project has been
finished recently and formed into a book, which has not been
published yet and is at the stage of a ready made prototype
waiting to be published. Yet this is the first time the original
photographs are going out into the world, in the hope of being
widely viewed by the public eye at an exhibition.
Please be kind and gentle with them...
Ilya Vartanian has been a renowned fashion and celebrity photographer in Russia since 1994. Based in Moscow, Vartanian is one of the most sought after professionals photographing for major magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, GQ, Vogue, Allure, Esquire, Elle, Tattler, Glamour and InStyle.
In PX3 2016 competition Vartanian is presenting 4 works from his personal project about Armenia.
