Tag Archives: Ara Oshagan

Rhythms of a Severed Past: Chronicling a City’s Diaspora

Posted on April 24, 2022 by Taline Voskeritchian

The Spring 2022 issue of Virginia Quarterly Review features a portfolio of photographs by Ara Oshagan, and an introduction by Christopher Millis and myself. The photographs are from Oshagan’s recently published book of image and text, displaced/հատում (Kehrer Verlag, Berlin). … Continue reading →

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Remembering Vahé Oshagan (1922- June 30, 2000)

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Taline Voskeritchian

~~Today marks the thirteenth anniversary of the death of the Western Armenian poet and literary critic Vahé Oshagan, perhaps the most radical, innovative poet of his generation. A native of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, an exile who turned the condition into the … Continue reading →

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Barely photographs–Ara Oshagan’s transit

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Taline Voskeritchian

From time to time, I post photographs of distant places on my blog.  These are usually images of travel, of discovery taken by friends or friends of friends.  These “photographs” by documentary photographer Ara Oshagan were also taken in passage–to … Continue reading →

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Reading “Father Land”, a book of text by Vahé Oshagan and photographs by Ara Oshagan

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Taline Voskeritchian

~~Ara Oshagan is a documentary photographer.  He is also my cousin.  His father, Vahé Oshagan, and my mother, Anahid Oshagan Voskeritchian, are brother and sister.  I must mention our familial tie in the spirit of full disclosure as I am … Continue reading →

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