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1. Mar 19, 2010

   The Latest

   Hi Everybody, I am happy to announce my new website, www.alexandraavakian.com, designed by the extremely talented linesandwaves! I am still in the process of scanning 30 years of my best slides, prints and tearsheets, so it is a work in progress. I am also happy to announce the March 26th…

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   Alexandra Avakian

2. Nov 16, 2009

   Upcoming Events

       Here are some exciting programs I'm doing over the next couple of months: November As part of Foto Week DC and the Newseum's exhibition on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the pictures I shot for LIFE Magazine are showing on the forty-foot Atrium…

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   Alexandra Avakian

3. Sep 03, 2009

   Photographic Home

   Hello again from Visa pour L'image international photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France. Visa pour L'image is one of my photographic homes, and I am deeply pleased to be exhibiting here again. Terrific shows abound with the photojournalists such as Eugene Richards, the late Francois Demulder, Abbas, David Burnett, Massimo Berutti,…

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   Alexandra Avakian

4. Aug 27, 2009

   Jean-Francois Leroy and Visa Pour L’Image

   Jean-Francois Leroy, Director and Founder of Visa Pour L'Image on the staircase of Hotel Pams, Perpignan, France Hello from lovely Perpignan in the south of France, where I am honored to have an exhibition at the renowned international photojournalism festival Visa Pour L'image. This is my third exhibit at Visa…

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   Alexandra Avakian

5. Aug 25, 2009

   Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan

   I'll be at Visa pour l'Image - the premier International Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan, France. Stay tuned for updates from the festival and news about my exhibit.

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   Alexandra Avakian

6. Jun 23, 2009

   Iran Today

   This is a caption for my image Twenty years ago this month, in June 1989, I was in Iran photographing the mourning for Ayatollah Khomeini. Ten years ago I covered the reform movement when it was in power under President Mohammed Khatami. Iran has shifted from right to left and…

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   Alexandra Avakian

7. Mar 06, 2009

   Slideshows in the Desert

   Gaza City This weekend I'm off to the Arizona desert for photography, work, and fun. Later next week I will be at the Tucson Festival of Books in Arizona. On Thursday, March 12 at 6:30, The University of Arizona's Center for Middle East Studies and the U.A. School of Journalism…

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   Alexandra Avakian

8. Jan 29, 2009

   Iran

   Traveling in the Islamic Republic of Iran was one of my most personal journeys and is in the second chapter of my book. You probably want to know: why would an American woman with all the freedom in the world want to subject herself to so much time in the…

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   Alexandra Avakian

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