Diana Markosian and Sarah Meister in Conversation
Book Launch
Diana Markosian and Sarah Meister in Conversation
Friday, December 13
6:00 p.m. EST
Join Aperture and Picto New York for a conversation between artist Diana Markosian and Aperture’s executive director, Sarah Meister. They will discuss Markosian’s most recent publication, Father (Aperture, 2024), an intimate and engrossing diaristic portrayal of estrangement and reconnection, recounted through documentary photographs, family snapshots, text, and visual ephemera.
Diana Markosian: Father presents the photographer’s journey to another place and another time, where Markosian attempts to piece together an image of a familiar stranger—her long-lost father. The book explores her father’s absence, her reconciliation with him, and the shared emptiness of their prolonged estrangement. The images, made over the course of a decade, take place in her father’s home in Armenia. Father follows her first monograph, Santa Barbara (Aperture, 2020), in which Markosian recreates the story of her family’s journey from post–Soviet Russia to the US in the 1990s.
This event is presented in partnership with Picto New York.
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Diana Markosian (born in Moscow, 1989) is among the leaders of a new generation of photographers and lens-based artists advancing documentary storytelling through image-making. Her photographs have been published in Vanity Fair, Vogue, and the New Yorker. Her work is represented by Galerie les filles du calvaire, Paris. The artist’s acclaimed first monograph, Santa Barbara (Aperture, 2020), was selected as one of the top books of the year by Time and the Museum of Modern Art Magazine. She holds an MS from Columbia University in New York.
Sarah Meister is executive director of Aperture. She joined Aperture in May 2021, following more than twenty-five years at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she curated numerous exhibitions. She is author and coeditor of the three-volume series Photography at MoMA (with Quentin Bajac and others). She was also lead instructor for the online course Seeing Through Photographs and codirector of the August Sander Project.
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Image: Diana Markosian, Together, Apart; from the series Father; from Diana Markosian: Father (Aperture, 2024). © 2024 Aperture
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