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Aperture presents Father by Diana Markosian, a limited-edition print and book set.

Delve into the poignant narrative of Father, a powerful new monograph by celebrated photographer Diana Markosian. Coinciding with the release of the monograph, Aperture is pleased to release this limited-edition book and print set that features a special version of the book and an exclusive print from Diana Markosian: Father (Aperture 2024).

Born in Moscow, Markosian relocated to California as a child, and her life has been marked by her father’s absence—a profound absence that has shaped her understanding of family and identity. With no photographs to guide her and years of separation, she embarked on a transformative quest to find him in Armenia, revealing the complexities of love, loss, and longing. Through a captivating blend of documentary photographs, intimate family snapshots, and archival materials, alongside her original, diaristic writings, Markosian invites readers into the intricate dynamics of fatherhood and the realities of their relationship.

This limited-edition is a unique opportunity to own both a version of the book—which features additional pages with images from Super 8 films (printed on a Golden Star K 90-gram paper, unique to this limited edition)—and a signed archival pigment print, which is an image of the artist with her father, all presented in a clamshell box. The edition is limited to 50 signed-and-numbered copies.

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.