Angela Strassheim, 1969, USA, has worked as a forensic photographer for several years before focusing on her conceptual photography.  Her series Evidence is a collection of photographs that involve interiors and exteriors of houses where crimes had been committed. Extensive research was the key to locate 140 residences in dozens of cities. The exterior photographs show anonymous houses in broad daylight. She gained access to 18 houses to photograph the interiors using BlueStar, a reagent whose purpose is to reveal blood stains. To preserve the anonymity of all the individuals currently living in the houses she chose to include no image of the exterior when the interior is shown and vice versa.
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Village Life in Armenia 

The life of a peasant in Armenia is a hard road, unchanged for decades. They have no power, no choice, and no hope of securing a better station in life as the months and years pass. Their faces reflect ancient memories, filled with fatigue and exhaustion. The soil is as tired as the farmers, and they merge together into one arduous life.

Mery Agakhanyan,1978,Yerevan , Armenia. From 1994 to 1997 she had finished Romanos Melikyan Musical College. Contemporary from 1996 to 1999 she studied of the Free Humanitarian University in the department of metaphysic and philosophy. 2003 she had been graduated as musicologist.
From 2009 -2010 she is lecturing in University after Nicol Galateryan as a “skill of filming”.
Her occupation nowadays film industry and documentary photography.
She have started shooting since 2009 in documentary photography. She is an author an essay about minorities in Armenia – “Yezidis, life and inner world”.
In 2009 she had awarded OSI Documentary Photography Project grand, the theme is: The social and economic situation of life in several villages in Armenia. /The grant supports photographers in documenting a social justice or human rights issue in Central Asia, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, and Pakistan/.
This her work in 2010 was selected for Asian women photographer’s showcase in 6-th Angkor Photo Festival.
In March 2011 –Yangon Photo Festival (Burma).

If it's available to the masses, is it not really art?

Ben Lowy was born in New York in 1979. Introduced to art by his grandmother and mother, the former a painter and the latter a designer, Benjamin was originally interested in comic book illustration and graphic design. It was in university where Lowy was introduced to photography.
Began his career covering the Iraq War in 2003. Since then he has covered major stories worldwide. In 2004 Lowy attended the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass, he was named in Photo District News 30 and his images of Iraq were chosen by PDN as some of the most iconic of the 21st century. Lowy has received awards from World Press Photo, Communication Arts, American Photography..

Mikhail Baryshnikov was born in Riga, Latvia in 1948. One of the greatest ballet dancers in history..

Armenian photographer Karen Mirzoyan, 1981, born in Georgia is a documentary photographer and a photojournalist. He has done several series and is currently working on various long-term projects. His photostory called The Unrecognized Islands of Caucasus is divided in four parts. These different parts of his story are also edited into different chapters. Karen's multi-layered chapters create a very profound insight into stories that deal with war. He shows us an enormous diversity of the effects of war. Karen's work is strong, personal, full of respect and frightening at the same time.

Luis González Palma, 1957, Guatemala, is an artist who works and lives in Córdoba, Argentina. In his impressive and extensive body of work we see him using various disciplines to achieve his end results. He uses fabrics and textiles, manipulates images, sometimes hand-painted and plays with our perception. Originally trained as an architect and cinematographer, he has exhibited his photographic work since 1989. Palma got international recognition with his first series depicting haunting images of the Maya Indians showing the pain and sadness of the Mayan people who have suffered from a violent and racist regime since the early 16th century. His work is held in numerous private and public collections around the world.
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