How one photographer’s wrong turn led her to a forgotten world
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/05/16/how-one-photographers-wrong-turn-led-her-to-a-forgotten-world
On Dec. 7, 1988, northern Armenia was devastated by a near 7.0 magnitude earthquake; 25,000 were killed, thousands more injured, and hundreds of thousands left homeless in what was then a Soviet republic. The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly hindered the reconstruction of the affected cities, including Gyumri, Armenia’s second largest city. Many families are still waiting for aid, but are ineligible for government housing if they are not considered direct victims of the quake. Photographer Yulia Grigoryants stumbled upon some of these families inhabiting one of the abandoned apartment buildings in Gyumri. She shared her experience with In Sight.
Suzanna (9) sitting in a “shelter” made of old car rusty parts. Ten days ago her father committed suicide, as people say, because of debt. (Yulia Grigoryants)
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