Salt Beyoğlu, Istanbul, is hosting a new exhibition featuring the works of Hrair Sarkissian.

In Sarkissian’s works, landscape and the urban environment become stages for the expression of moments in history. Employing traditional documentary techniques, his photographs express the hidden paradox existing between the beauty and constancy of the surroundings and the potential realities they conceal, Hurriyet Daily News reports.

The exhibition will last until the end of December.

A heir of Armenian Genocide survivors, Sarkissian spent two months in Istanbul in 2010 documenting the history sections of various semi-private and public libraries and archives in the city, from the Archaeological Museum and Topkapı Palace Libraries to the Atatürk Library in Taksim, the Ottoman Archives of the Prime Ministry General Directorate of State, and the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre.

Sarkissian studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.

Current exhibitions include the third Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece, (2011) and Facing Mirrors, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece (2011).

His recent exhibitions also include Out of Place at TATE Modern, London, and Darat Al Funun.

The Salt Beyoğlu exhibition is organized with the support of the Kalfayan Galleries, Athens-Thessaloniki.