Photography Archives - The Queer Armenian Library

Reparations of the Heart: Toward a SWANA Futurity by Kristin Anahit Cass

Published in 2024, Reparations of the Heart: Toward a SWANA Futurity by Kristin Anahit Cass is a book of essays, stories, poems, quotes and images. In it, Cass poses the questions: What…

Ordinary People: Portraits from LGBTQ Armenia, Georgia, and Russia by Ksenia Kuleshova

Published in 2023, Ordinary People: Portraits from LGBTQ Armenia, Georgia, and Russia by Ksenia Kuleshova is a series of color portraits, accompanied by short interviews, of LGBTQ Armenians, Georgians, and Russians. Ksenia…

The Stamp of Loneliness by Nazik Armenakyan

Published in 2016, The Stamp of Loneliness by Nazik Armenakyan is a photography collection of transgender sex workers in Armenia. Armenakyan has worked as a photojournalist since 2002. She has worked for…

The Queer Photography of Maryam Şahinyan

Born in 1911, Maryam Şahinyan (Մարիամ Շահինեան) was a photographer and considered to be the first female studio photographer in Turkey. Şahinyan focused on portraits, which included queer subjects and folx from…

Aracheener or “Firsts”

In honor of LGBTQ Pride Month, the International Armenian Literary Alliance, with Hye-Phen Magazine and the Queer Armenian Library, hosted Aracheener, or “Firsts,” on June 12, 2021. Watch the recording below! It…

The Hye-Phen Magazine

The Hye-Phen Magazine was founded in 2014 as an online magazine and global collective to connect queer-minded Armenian artists, scholars, writers, and amplify our under-spoken stories, issues, ideas, and visions of the future.

Queered: What’s To Be Done With Xcentric Art

Published in 2011, Queered: What’s To Be Done With Xcentric Art by the Queering Yerevan (QY) collective is their first publication and one of the first [*] collections of queer art, photography, experimental writing, critical texts, and email correspondences.