Father

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Diana Markosians Father is an intimate and engrossing diaristic portrayal of estrangement and reconnection, recounted through documentary photographs, family snapshots, text, and visual ephemera.

Diana Markosian: Father presents the photographers journey to another place and another time, where Markosian attempts to piece together an image of a familiar strangerher long-lost father. The book explores her fathers absence, her reconciliation with him, and the shared emptiness of their prolonged estrangement. The images, made over the course of a decade, take place in her fathers home in Armenia. In Markosians first monograph, Santa Barbara (Aperture, 2020), the photographer recreates the story of her familys journey from postSoviet Russia to the US in the 1990s. Father uses both documentary photographs and archives of objects, letters, and vernacular images to probe the fifteen years of absence and separation from the photographers childhood. In this voyage of self-discovery, Markosian touchingly renders her longing for connection to a man she barely remembers and who asks her, when she finds him, Why did it take you so long?