DIANA MARKOSIAN (born in Moscow, 1989) is a Russian-American photographer of Armenian
descent. Her work explores memory and place through a layered, interdisciplinary process that
uses video, photography, drawings and historical ephemera. Her photographs have been
published in National Geographic, the New Yorker, and the New York Times. Her awards
include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2019), World Press Photo Award
(2019), Magnum Foundation Fund Grant (2019), Elliott Erwitt Foundation (2018), Chris
Hondros Fund Award (2015), Firecracker Grant (2014), and Burn Magazine Emerging
Photographer Fund (2013). She holds a Master of Science from Columbia University in New
York. Her first monograph, ‘Santa Barbara’ will be published by Aperture in 2020 and is
accompanied by a show premiering at Les Recontres d’Arles in (2020) before moving to San
Francisco MOMA (2020) and International Center of Photography, NYC (2021).