Where do I go to learn how to use a camera ? For me, that was where I came from.
— Diana Markosian
Diana Markosian is a Russian-American photographer of Armenian origin. Her work explores memory and place through an interdisciplinary process that incorporates video, photography, drawing, and ephemera. Her photographs have been published in National Geographic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Her awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2019), the World Press Photo Award (2019), the Magnum Foundation Fund Grant (2019), the Elliott Erwitt Foundation Grant (2018), the Chris Hondros Fund Award (2015), the Firecracker Grant (2014), and the Burn Magazine Emerging Photographer Fund (2013). She holds a Master of Science degree from Columbia University in New York. Her first monograph, Santa Barbara, was published by Aperture in 2020. The Santa Barbara exhibition has been shown at SFMOMA (2020), the International Center of Photography, New York (2021), FOMU in Antwerp (2022), and Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris (2022). It will also be presented in 2023 at Fotografiska Stockholm.