Diana Markosian and Todd Hido in Conversation

Overview

Join Aperture and Leica Store San Francisco for a conversation between artists Diana Markosian and Todd Hido, during which they will discuss Markosian’s most recent publication, Father (Aperture, 2024), an intimate and engrossing diaristic portrayal of estrangement and reconnection. This conversation will be followed by a book signing.

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 Leica Store San Francisco. RSVP is required.