{"id":7907,"date":"2017-04-06T01:36:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T01:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/on-the-scene-anahit-hayrapetyan\/"},"modified":"2020-07-21T23:30:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T23:30:05","slug":"on-the-scene-anahit-hayrapetyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/on-the-scene\/2017\/04\/06\/7907\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Scene: Anahit Hayrapetyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I photograph because nothing else works out better for me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen speaking about myself, I say that I\u2019m a photographer; before taking photographs I would say that I\u2019m a poet; before that, that I\u2019m a student\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the polytechnic institute, Anahit began taking photographs for the university\u2019s official newspaper. Parallel to this, she was accepted into photojournalist Ruben Mangasaryan\u2019s course at the Caucasus Media Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was studying for my doctorate degree, to leave the classroom, the student had to raise her hand and ask, may I leave, and the answer was often no. During class at the Caucasus Media Institute, someone may have been eating, another person, sitting on the desk, periodically we would have lecturers from abroad\u2026 And I understood that it\u2019s more interesting to me here, and I want to be next to these people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" dir=\"ltr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H-AJ3OmlzCE\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Choosing photography as a profession, Anahit left her studies and has never regretted it. Only sometimes, in her dreams, she \u201cgoes up and down stairs, searching for the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ruben Mangasaryan was like a father to me, she says. \u201cI picked up a lot from him. He didn\u2019t give easily. It wasn\u2019t like you could go and say, Ruben, how should I do this, and he would respond. He would say, what do you think, and that\u2019s it. You would go and begin to \u2018think,\u2019 you would consider all the \u2018thoughts\u2019 within you in turn. I learned to think from him, to look at things from different sides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/anahit-hayrapetyan1.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The lessons learned at a younger age, about the photographer\u2019s professional and human values, become more visible and understandable with experience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce one of the teachers from Denmark said that when they accept a photojournalist\u2019s work they try to understand how caring of a person she is. I understood that much later. It often happens that I photograph something and present it in a completely different context. It turns out that I obtain a person\u2019s trust then deceive and harm him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/anahit-hayrapetyan3.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anahit Hayrapetyan is one of the members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4plus.org\/\">4 Plus<\/a> center for documentary photographers. She has three children. She lives in Germany and comes to Armenia from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are different parallels that will probably never intersect. I live in Germany, but what I do from there is connected to Armenia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She doesn\u2019t have high hopes of earning money through photojournalism. She often does projects knowing that at least today they have very little chance of being published in the foreign press. But she is sure that what she photographs needs to be documented today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess I\u2019m lucky, since my husband has a job, and I can allow myself this.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">My photographs are my wealth. I always jokingly tell my husband, I have something to leave to the children, I\u2019m going to leave them my projects in the will, what are you going to leave?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/anahit-hayrapetyan2.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anahit has written three poetry collections, and a series of poems also in the Karabakh dialect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe books don\u2019t sell, you won\u2019t make money off that, but there\u2019s a type of energy for which tools aren\u2019t enough to express it. That\u2019s when you resort to the help of words, and the poems get written.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If in photography I try to be objective, not express my political or civic position, in writing I am free: I write as I want, what I want.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"rteright\"><strong>Story and photos by Sona Kocharyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I photograph because nothing else works out better for me. \u201cWhen speaking about myself, I say that I\u2019m a photographer; before taking photographs I would say that I\u2019m a poet; before that, that I\u2019m a student\u2026\u201d At the polytechnic institute, Anahit began taking photographs for the university\u2019s official newspaper. Parallel to this, she was accepted<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/on-the-scene\/2017\/04\/06\/7907\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-the-scene","author_posts-sona-kocharyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23328,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions\/23328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}