Haunting Photographs Document the Erasure of Armenians in Turkey

Andréas Lang’s pictures, now compiled in a new book, convey “what the Turkish state wants people to remember and what it wants them to forget.”

Haunting Photographs Document the Erasure of Armenians in Turkey
Andréas Lang, "Stanoz, Turkey" (2022) depicts the site of the disappeared Armenian village Stanoz close to Ankara (Angora). Nothing is left of the village, and the remaining cemetery is also disappearing, regularly haunted by illegal treasure hunters. (© Andréas Lang, VG Bildkunst Bonn; photo courtesy Andréas Lang)