Diana Markosian's Santa Barbara & Instagram's Latest Update

Diana Markosian's latest project, Santa Barbara, is named after the 80s soap opera which she watched as a child in the Soviet Union. Little did she know that a short while later, her mom became a mail order bride in order to move the U.S. amid economic collapse in the USSR. In addition to an Aperture monogram, Markosian is releasing a film – a semi-autobiographical account of her early life in America.

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