the way we tell our stories shows who we
are individually and collectively and
the choices that we make while creating
the stories define its path and then
make a difference in history overall and
I’m I’m a storyteller I’m someone who
tells stories and a photographer I’m a
photojournalist so in May 2000 18 I was
working with a major publication an
international publication and we did a
lot of work in the streets covering the
protests I did what every
photojournalist did during those days
and so we also did a lot of work trying
to get into the Parliament office of
Nicole pacinian who is now the Prime
Minister of Armenia and so we did get
access we managed to interview him and I
took portraits of him and after this the
journalists that I was working with
asked if he could also interview on the
hakko peon the wife of nickel titanium
and we got permission so we took a taxi
to the passion young family home which
is now home to another family which is
another beautiful story so we were very
welcomed by the family by Anna and the
two daughters a Shoshone and RP who are
the two younger and daughters of the
fair of the for passion young children
and it was a very beautiful and warm
welcome
after that the journalists that I was
working with started to interview Anna
and I walked off as I often do trying to
find and understand my story trying to
see how it comes together with the story
that I’m they’ll think overall and in
this case that was the story of The
Velvet Revolution that we all ran
through and and so I walked after the
girls and I got to know them and we
spend some time just getting used to
each other’s presence and at some point
they went through the corridor into the
balcony which was also the bedroom of
their brother and Michonne started to
play on the phone now Artie was playing
on the phone at least a little an
intrusion was with her taking care of
her and I just sat down on the floor try
to understand the situation and the kind
of images that I could take and this was
the first time that I saw this wall
behind them when so many things written
on it many of them just animation
characters things that represented their
childhood and something started to come
to me and it was revealing itself and I
continued to follow the girls now into
the bedroom where they played and and
then I saw that there were more of these
walls almost a whole apartment was
filled with them and then I saw that
main line where you could see the names
of football players and animation
characters and imprints of their hands
and some little monster and above all
above all of this noise there was the
sign of peace and so when I saw this you
know I thought to myself that after all
as we work as we try to tell
something that we’re feeling and that
we’re seeing one of the most important
things for us as photojournalist is to
represent the emotions that we’re seeing
and sometimes that we’re also feeling in
the best way possible and so on this
image I thought really represented it
and it was just everything that these
children were going through which was
also what the Armenian people were going
through and had been going through for
so many years ahead of this revolution
and they had experienced it firsthand
they started to draw and write on these
walls when their father was away when he
was in jail or when he was hiding and
their mother just allowed it to to them
because she felt it was a form of relief
for them and so they started to draw and
write on all of the walls and so that
became representative for me and
continued taking pictures also thinking
to myself and realizing that I wasn’t in
the street anymore I wasn’t in this
place in those streets and in those
locations where we all go for a thing
right that’s the direct path that we
take in order to show the revolution but
I was somewhere else
and it was just another place that we
went with the journalists and I realized
and I thought to myself that so many
times we have to really go out of our
way out of the path that is straight in
order to come back and actually show and
represent the real meaning of our story
and so I continued working knowing now
exactly what I needed to show and
I also noticed not also thought to
myself that how interesting is it that
this was a voice this where voices of
children that we don’t often allow to be
heard and they told this story as well
as anybody in the street could tell it
so I thought that we really need to do
this more often as reporters as
photographers we have to do our best to
block the voices of children and let the
voices of women be heard as much as we
can and so I continued working there
seeing not only that but also the the
childlike joy that these children were
expressing and experiencing which made
me feel of that joy that so many of us
felt on the last day of the revolution
on the 8th of May that was everything
they lived everything that each one of
us did and they really expressed it and
so that after all the children and their
experiences was the reason of our
revolution wasn’t it it was in so much
of our wording and so much of what we
said the children the future right and
so I would just like to say that if we
worry so much about our future we need
to pay attention when our future grows a sign of peace on a noisy wall
are individually and collectively and
the choices that we make while creating
the stories define its path and then
make a difference in history overall and
I’m I’m a storyteller I’m someone who
tells stories and a photographer I’m a
photojournalist so in May 2000 18 I was
working with a major publication an
international publication and we did a
lot of work in the streets covering the
protests I did what every
photojournalist did during those days
and so we also did a lot of work trying
to get into the Parliament office of
Nicole pacinian who is now the Prime
Minister of Armenia and so we did get
access we managed to interview him and I
took portraits of him and after this the
journalists that I was working with
asked if he could also interview on the
hakko peon the wife of nickel titanium
and we got permission so we took a taxi
to the passion young family home which
is now home to another family which is
another beautiful story so we were very
welcomed by the family by Anna and the
two daughters a Shoshone and RP who are
the two younger and daughters of the
fair of the for passion young children
and it was a very beautiful and warm
welcome
after that the journalists that I was
working with started to interview Anna
and I walked off as I often do trying to
find and understand my story trying to
see how it comes together with the story
that I’m they’ll think overall and in
this case that was the story of The
Velvet Revolution that we all ran
through and and so I walked after the
girls and I got to know them and we
spend some time just getting used to
each other’s presence and at some point
they went through the corridor into the
balcony which was also the bedroom of
their brother and Michonne started to
play on the phone now Artie was playing
on the phone at least a little an
intrusion was with her taking care of
her and I just sat down on the floor try
to understand the situation and the kind
of images that I could take and this was
the first time that I saw this wall
behind them when so many things written
on it many of them just animation
characters things that represented their
childhood and something started to come
to me and it was revealing itself and I
continued to follow the girls now into
the bedroom where they played and and
then I saw that there were more of these
walls almost a whole apartment was
filled with them and then I saw that
main line where you could see the names
of football players and animation
characters and imprints of their hands
and some little monster and above all
above all of this noise there was the
sign of peace and so when I saw this you
know I thought to myself that after all
as we work as we try to tell
something that we’re feeling and that
we’re seeing one of the most important
things for us as photojournalist is to
represent the emotions that we’re seeing
and sometimes that we’re also feeling in
the best way possible and so on this
image I thought really represented it
and it was just everything that these
children were going through which was
also what the Armenian people were going
through and had been going through for
so many years ahead of this revolution
and they had experienced it firsthand
they started to draw and write on these
walls when their father was away when he
was in jail or when he was hiding and
their mother just allowed it to to them
because she felt it was a form of relief
for them and so they started to draw and
write on all of the walls and so that
became representative for me and
continued taking pictures also thinking
to myself and realizing that I wasn’t in
the street anymore I wasn’t in this
place in those streets and in those
locations where we all go for a thing
right that’s the direct path that we
take in order to show the revolution but
I was somewhere else
and it was just another place that we
went with the journalists and I realized
and I thought to myself that so many
times we have to really go out of our
way out of the path that is straight in
order to come back and actually show and
represent the real meaning of our story
and so I continued working knowing now
exactly what I needed to show and
I also noticed not also thought to
myself that how interesting is it that
this was a voice this where voices of
children that we don’t often allow to be
heard and they told this story as well
as anybody in the street could tell it
so I thought that we really need to do
this more often as reporters as
photographers we have to do our best to
block the voices of children and let the
voices of women be heard as much as we
can and so I continued working there
seeing not only that but also the the
childlike joy that these children were
expressing and experiencing which made
me feel of that joy that so many of us
felt on the last day of the revolution
on the 8th of May that was everything
they lived everything that each one of
us did and they really expressed it and
so that after all the children and their
experiences was the reason of our
revolution wasn’t it it was in so much
of our wording and so much of what we
said the children the future right and
so I would just like to say that if we
worry so much about our future we need
to pay attention when our future grows a sign of peace on a noisy wall
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