Magnum was created at the end of the Second World War by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier - Bresson, David Seymour and George Rodger. It is a photographer cooperative which today counts around 60 members. Based on humanistic values, it is the only major photo agency that has always kept Armenia in the focus of its attention.

This exhibition, THE CHRONICLES OF ARMENIA BY MAGNUM, presents a group of photographs by nine Magnum photographers who documented Armenia from the end of the 20th century until the present day. The selected photographs were taken during some of the most difficult periods of Armenia’s recent history, * when each time a decisive moment came to determine the future of the country, which seemed to be constantly postponed. 

If we imagine Magnum’s photographic legacy as a certain artistic language about crises and catastrophes, then, among many other leitmotifs, we can highlight the importance of the theme of hope - in the figure of the bride, the newborn child, and the rope dance, which symbolize the fragility of peace.

*during which Armenia suffered repeated setbacks in its quest for independent self - determination.