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 Elizabeth Mkhitarian | Oct 9, 2023 | Essay
“Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.” ― Albert Camus I. He walks up, as I closely follow behind. Dreaded locks brush free along his ambiguous...
by thehyephenmag@gmail.com | Oct 5, 2023 | Essay
I first saw The Color of Pomegranates at my university cinema with a friend. It is a famous Armenian film, from 1969, about the Medieval poet Sayat Nova. It was a movie about a poet with no dialogue, more like a ninety minute performance art piece. I left the theater...
by Sevan Mujukian | Oct 5, 2023 | Essay
We’re all tired of seeing the photos, whether in their original forms or fucked up caricatures of them. I do not intend to feed the already massive celebrity industrial complex that embezzles visibility in place of actual ‘issues’. By no means is this some sort of...
by Kamee Abrahamian | Oct 5, 2023 | Essay
Preamble (introduction) A few weeks after I watched the ‘Mother Armenia’ episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians: I spoke to an Armenian girlfriend about how horrified and triggered I felt by it. “Was it that bad?” she asked. My response, in retrospect, was barely...