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<\/p>\nFor a photographer Max Sivaslian, who documented the war in Artsakh, a war is a theater from the other side of the lens. You find yourself in the real war when you remove the eye from the camera.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou press the camera to your face, close one eye, disappear in the lens, you don\u2019t see what\u2019s happening or who is around you. Even if the danger is imminent, you try to create the right dynamic. In that moment, you need to disconnect from everything to capture the right shot and to do that you first need to understand the environment. It is difficult to photograph a war, to document static shots. It\u2019s different for videographers, they capture frame and movement, and they can do it from a single enclosed place. Of course, it\u2019s just as dangerous but in the case of photography you cannot take pictures standing in one place,\u201d explains the French-Armenian photographer. <\/p>\n
Max decides to photograph the pain and cruelty of war when in 1992 in his native Marseille he sees a documentary on Artsakh war by Tsvetana Paskaleva. Max Sivaslian, who hasn\u2019t been in Armenia before, immediately leaves for Nagorno-Karabakh, where military operations unfold.<\/p>\n
“After the film, something has changed in my world of a photographer. I decided to participate in the war not with weapons but with my camera. My goal was to go through military operations with my camera. Prior to that, I\u2019ve never photographed a war. Instead, I photographed poverty in Bangladesh, India, African countries, China, Central America … Human suffering and extreme poverty in remote corners of the world was my theme,” says Sivaslian.<\/p>\n
From 1992 to 1994 by taking pictures in the frontlines, Sivaslian immortalizes military operations, preserving history for future generations. <\/p>\n
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His photographs are published in Nouvelle d\u2019Armenie magazine, French and international press. In 2001, his photos get published in the book \u201cBlack Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War.\u201d Today, Max Sivaslian is a photo reporter for Nouvelle d\u2019Armenie magazine. <\/p>\n
He remembers that he was shooting film during those years. In order to have his photos published he had to get the film to France. <\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t go to Paris every time but I absolutely had to send the film. I would go to the hotel or the airport, find people flying to France and ask them to take the films with them. Back then you couldn\u2019t develop color film in Armenia,\u201d says Sivaslian. <\/p>\n
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