On May 9, French-Armenian photographer Max-Arshak Sivaslian opened his personal exhibition called “Fathers and Sons” at the Palace of Culture and Youth of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. The photographer’s 100 photos portray the Nagorno-Karabakh-Azerbaijan war (April 1992-1994) and the war that took place in April 2016, as well as shots of episodes of the liberation battles and from the rear. This is posted on the website of the NKR Ministry of Culture and Youth Affairs, as reported Hayern Aysor.

The exhibition was organized with the support of the NKR Ministry of Culture and Youth Affairs. The first visitors were Speaker of the NKR National Assembly Ashot Ghulyan and NKR Minister of Culture and Youth Affairs Narine Aghabalyan.

P. S.: Max-Arshak Sivaslian was born in 1954 in Marseille, France.

Since the age of 20, Sivaslian has been traveling to distant countries with the purpose of preparing photo reports. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was mainly in India and in the countries of Southeastern Asia, including Burma, China and the Philippines. He has also toured Australia, North and South Americas, Turkey, South Africa and many other countries.

In April 1992, Max-Arshak Sivaslian visited Artsakh to shed light on the war that Azerbaijan had unleashed against Nagorno-Karabakh. The photos that he took in the first zone of the conflict were released in Nouvelle d’Armenie magazine, as well as in French and other foreign presses. In 2001, his photos were shown in a book entitled “Black Garden, Story about a War”. Since 1994, he is a permanent correspondent for Nouvelle d’Armenie, which is a very famous Armenian magazine abroad.

In 2011, on the occasion of the 20^th anniversary of the declaration of independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, by the decree of NKR President Bako Sahakyan, Max-Arshak Sivaslian was awarded with the Medal of Gratitude.