Anush Babajanyan will document the experiences of Armenian women who illegally migrate to Turkey for better economic opportunities and the impact this has on the families they leave behind. Babajanyan aims to better understand and visualize these stories as they are underreported, due in part to Armenia’s contentious history and relationship with Turkey.
Babajanyan is a freelance photojournalist and has worked for publications such as, Nouvelles d’Arménie, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Transitions Online, Hetq, National Geographic Traveler Armenia, and the organization, Journalists for Human Rights. She has exhibited her work in Ireland, Russia, and Turkey. In 2011, Babajanyan’s project on housing conditions in Gyumri, Armenia, was selected as a finalist in the amateur category for the PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Awards. She studied journalism and mass communications at the American University in Bulgaria, and she completed a course in photojournalism at the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan, Armenia.