MEMORY OF TREES is a dark and startling reminder of an all too often forgotten genocide committed against Armenians in the early 1900s by the once powerful Ottoman Empire. Since 2007, Kathryn Cook travelled between Turkey and Armenia and on to Syria, Lebanon and Israel unearthing the shamefultruth whilst giving a voice to its survivors and legacy. The resulting collection of images emphasise the emotional tonality of the story rather than documenting specific events, and ensure this overlooked genocide finally finds a voice and some sense of closure.
Kathryn Cook (born 1979 in New Mexico) is based in Rome, Italy, and represented by Agence VU'. Her work has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, Newsweek, and Stern.She has received several grants for this work including the Inge Morath Award (2008), The Aftermath Project grant (2008), the Enzo Baldoni award (2008) and the Alexia Foundation grant (2012).
François Cheval is chief curator of the photography museum Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France.
Karin Karakasli, born in Istanbul in 1972, is a poet who writes in Turkish.She is currently a columnist at Agos, the Turkish-Armenian weekly newspaper and Radikal newspaper, and continues to write fiction and poetry.