Infant House, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia © EveryChild / Onnik Krikorian 2005
After mentioning children in residential care in a previous post I’ve just noticed that the Institute for War & Peace Reporting have two articles on a related subject — adoption in the Caucasus. In the first, Tamar Kadagidze looks at efforts to quicken the […]
After mentioning the circle.am web statistics service all week I noticed a new site had been registered by the Gavar Special School. As I mentioned in my last post, children in residential institutions are a long term project of mine, and so I was not only glad to find that this site had been set […]
Well, it’s good to see more specialist blogs appear in Armenia and the South Caucasus that not only exist to assist in research on certain issues, but to also disseminate the results of studies that already have been completed. In particular, the CRRC Blog includes details of a study examining how schoolchildren view the rule […]
Mkhitarist Seminary, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / CNEWA One Magazine 2006
I’ve been a little quiet of late because of work and in particular an article and photos that I had to produce for One Magazine, a publication of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA). After viewing my Lightstalkers portfolio, the magazine’s […]
Samuel Kocharian, AGAPE Children’s Home, Berdzor (Lachin), Republic of Nagorno Karabakh © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2002
The Armenian News Network — Groong has just published another one of my interviews conducted in Lachin two weeks ago. The interview is one in a series for articles that will be published by Eurasianet and the Institute […]
Don’t you just love the local Armenian media? No sense of how to work properly at all, and once again my images have been taken off the Internet and used without permission or even a credit. Worse than that, the news item by ArmenPress is something that doesn’t reflect the reality behind the story.
YEZIDI […]
Varsenik, Lachin, Kashatagh Region, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2002
Lachin, Kashatagh Region, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2006
Lachin, Kashatagh Region, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2006
Lachin, Kashatagh Region, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2006
While in Lachin I made a return visit to the AGAPE Children’s Home to speak to its Director Samuel Kocharian. The institution which is generally referred to as a Boarding School by locals was established in 1995 and accomodates 27 children deprived […]
Lachin, Kashatagh Region, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2006
One of the nicest things about my otherwise ill-fated return to Lachin was seeing kids I had photographed years earlier. In particular, it was nice to stay with the family of Gohar, pictured below.
She’s the small girl pictured years ago reading […]
