Alexis Pazoumian (1988) is a French photographer and filmmaker of Armenian origin based in Paris. His work is oriented towards social documentary, focusing on communities living on the margins of society. From the favelas of Rio, in the United States, and more recently in Siberia and Armenia, notions of humanity, identity and society are at the heart of his work.
In 2017, he publishes his first book “Faubourg Treme” André frère Éditions about the daily life of the African-American community in New Orleans. This book was distributed in France, the United Kingdom and the United States.
His new book “Sacha” about the impact of climate change on the daily life of a reindeer herder in Siberia will be released in bookstores in February 2020. He regularly publish his work in the press such as: The Washington post, The Guardian, National Geographic, Der Spiegel, Vanity Fair, Vogue and Libération.
In December 2020, his new documentary film on the Nagorno-Karabakh region is broadcast on the French television channel Arte. He is preparing a new book and a long documentary on the same subject.
About ‘Sacha‘ – words by Alexis Pazoumian:
Sacha is the second book by the young French photographer Alexis Pazoumian. In this firsthand account of the climate crisis, Alexis Pazoumian guides us on a photographic odyssey across the far reaches of the world’s coldest region, Yakutia. In a country that’s estimated to be warming up three times faster than the rest of the planet, it’s Russia’s icy heart.
