Tamar Haytayan, Author at The Armenian Weekly

Tamar Haytayan

Tamar Haytayan is a Vancouver-based photographer working from a personal and intuitive perspective to capture candid moments of the culture of everyday life. A central theme of several of her projects has been the exploration of memory, mortality and grief. Tamar Haytayan studied photography at the Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design in Bournemouth, UK, and her body of work spans over the last 28 years. Tamar has shown at the Armenian Centre for Contemporary Art (Yerevan, Armenia), PhotoHaus Gallery (Vancouver, Canada), Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (Philadelphia, USA), The Women's Art Show (Vancouver, Canada), The Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, Colorado), Los Angeles Centre of Photography (Los Angeles), and The Blue Sky Gallery (Portland, Oregon). She has also collaborated with the performance artist and poet Dr. Celeste Snowber (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada) and currently resides in Vancouver, Canada with her musician and designer husband, Haig, children Jivan and Ani and poodle Tipper.

Op-Eds

A patent on victimhood

December 12, 2023

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Growing up, whenever my attention would move to the causes of other peoples, my family and Armenian community would turn…

Literary Corner

Grief

July 7, 2020

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Where do you feel your grief today? Do you want to feel it? Do you want to remember it? It…

Literary Corner

My grandmother’s thighs

June 24, 2020

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You have your grandmother’s thighs She says You have your grandmother’s thighs He says Thunder thighs I have my grandmother’s…