Sarkissian’s father has been a photographer in Damascus since the fifties. In 1979 he established the first photographic colour laboratory in Syria, named ‘Dream Color’. This shop is where Hrair grew up and earned his foundation in photography.
Confronted by its almost unavoidable upcoming closure, Sarkissian photographed the center in 2010, afraid to lose something he helped construct, and that constructed him. He also asked his father to take portraits of him as a ‘last portrait session’ in the studio. These are shown together with black and white portraits of his father taken at different stages of his youth, found in his archive.
Archival inkjet print, 20 x 25 cm and 20 x 30 cm, 150 x 190 cm
