NORAIR CHAHINIAN was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1979. His family roots back to Urfa, Marash, Iskenderun and Kessab. His passion in photography comes from his grandfather Avedis Shahinian, who, after migrating from Marash, settled in Aleppo and founded Studio Photo Shahinian. Chahinian has studied architecture and urbanism at Mackenzie University and has received a master's degree in Art History at the São Paulo State University-USP in 2007. In 2008, he published a photography collection titled Armenia. He visited Turkey for the first time in 2012, to follow the steps of his family. In 2015 he exhibited in Diyarbakir and Urfa in Turkey.
Dr. Nira Stone, Lecturer in the Department of History of Art at the University ofJerusalem, specializing in Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Armenian Art of the Middle Ages.
