by Christopher Atamian | Mar 4, 2024 | Essay
Cover Image: Osheen Harruthoonyan, Black Mirror, 2020″ from Black Garden series My name is Johnny and I live in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. Actually, my real name is Hovhaness—which means Jonathan in Armenian. Ever since I was a small boy, I’ve worn jeans...
by Christopher Atamian | Mar 4, 2024 | Essay, Latest
Cover Image: Ara Oshagan, “Nor Sis, Bourj Hammoud, 2016”, from “displaced” series I remember Chtaurah* as if it were yesterday. In my mind Chtaura is a sepia toned film that plays back a lost time and place from my childhood on a spool, over...
by Christopher Atamian, Ara Oshagn | Aug 2, 2023 | Essay
That place. A liminal space. A mythic place. A space which links present to imagined past and propels you into an unfathomable future. The great cities of Cilicia are all here: Adiyaman, Mardin, Marash, Adana, Sis. Millennial castles rise straight out of clear water...
by Christopher Atamian | Jan 20, 2016 | Poetry
for Patti Smith Holy is the ground you walk on. Holy the Earth and the sky, holy the water you drink and the air you breathe Holy is the poet and the singer and the maker of images Holy are Patti and Robert and Sylvia and Allen Holy is the night, holy is the day, holy...