January 21st 2025 | #Armenia #Croatia #Digital Rights #English #Open Source

Since last fall, I haven't been daily driving the pinephone pro anymore. This is due to it not meeting the requirements that my work brings with it and a severe bug that hasn't been fixed in stable (yet). Here's some background - and why this probably doesn't mean that you couldn't daily drive a linux mobile phone.

November 8th 2024 | #Armenia #Civil Society #English #Feminism #Fotography

The world is a crazy place, but windows - you find them everywhere. Currently, I'm looking at quite similar windows in Zagreb (more on Zagreb at a later date), but the architecture of the socialist world reborn as capitalist societies is quite universal. Here we see a postmodern glass facade reflecting an old soviet building block in Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia.

April 7th 2023 | #Armenia #Civil Society #Deutsch #English #Feature

(deutsche version weiter unten)

The Cascades of Yerevan, that important tourist hotspot on any sightseeing tour of the city, are also quite symbolic of politics and society in Armenia. Elegance meets evening spectacle here in a Soviet-style monumentality that ends abruptly in a construction site, unfinished and also sold to an investor who promised the completion of the site.

But every new crisis in the country is a welcome reason to delay further investment. From the top of the cascades, in good weather, the view would fall on Mount Ararat, Armenia's holy mountain - which today lies in Turkey. The border: closed. In this place in Yerevan, social problems and international conflicts unfold in all directions, like cables on one of the city's electricity poles. An exploration of the reality of life and perspectives for the people of Armenia.