Anush Babajanyan answers:

The visuals I create are always internally supported by that inspiration that drove me near in the first place. It is very often the historical aspect, I am quickly taken by stories that can visually connect to what happened in the same area years or even centuries ago. As if trying to resolve that mystery of how it really was back then, how it felt. And can the present image of the changing human connect us to the older times.

Relating to the same historical aspect, what inspires me are connections and questions that I cannot answer, the mystery once again. What is going on here… There will usually be an answer before I start working, but the actual true answer will come only by the end of the working process or after.

That is what truly inspires, the lasting search to find out why.

The people who I work with, mostly who I photograph, have inspired me. I will spend time in a house with a family, and go out with the brightest of inspirations to continue to go farther into the story, to know more people. No matter what the experience, I usually am fascinated and inspired by any new person, place and story. Being inspired is really a constant state for me.

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