‘Santa Barbara’ (Aperture, 2020) is also the name of the debut monograph from Diana Markosian that charts her family’s dramatic upheaval from Russia to the US in 1996 after the fall of the Soviet Union. Known for her experimental approach to storytelling, she looks at her upbringing for inspiration in a work that collates film stills, scriptwriting, and reconstructed scenes from family photographs to present a multidimensional history that reads as fact but feels like fiction.
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