Diana Markosian Artist Talk and Book Signing
Artist Talk
Diana Markosian Artist Talk and Book Signing
Monday, March 10
7:00 p.m. GMT
Diana Markosian will give a Martin Parr Foundation artist talk on her latest photobook, Father (Aperture, 2024), during one of her rare visits to the UK.
Father is an intimate and engrossing diaristic portrayal of estrangement and reconnection, recounted through documentary photographs, family snapshots, text, and visual ephemera. The book 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. Father explores Markosian’s father’s absence, her reconciliation with him, and the shared emptiness of their prolonged estrangement.
In this artist talk, Markosian will discuss the universality of familial loss and attempted reconnection. The talk will be followed by questions from the floor and a book signing, where copies of Father will be available from the MPF bookshop.
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Image: Diana Markosian, Morning with You; from the series Father; from Diana Markosian: Father (Aperture, 2024). © 2024 Aperture
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