Diana Markosian的摄影集《Santa Barbara》再现了她们一家在90年代从后苏联的俄罗斯搬到美国的故事。

这本摄影集将舞台场景、电影剧照和家庭照片整合在一起，是个人故事和纪录片故事的混合体，既有新意，又引人入胜。在这个项目中，这位摄影师努力面对这样的现实：她的母亲为了自己和两个年幼的孩子能过上更好的生活，以邮购新娘的身份来到美国。20世纪八十年代，肥皂剧《圣塔芭芭拉》是在俄罗斯播出的**个美国电视节目，这座城市因此在俄罗斯很有名。所以，Markosian的母亲选择了一个住在圣塔芭芭拉的男人当丈夫。

Diana Markosian’s Santa Barbara recreates the story of her family’s journey from post-Soviet Russia to the U.S. in the 1990s.

The project pulls together staged scenes, film stills, and family pictures in an innovative and compelling hybrid of personal and documentary storytelling. In it, the artist grapples with the reality that her mother, seeking a better life for herself and her two young children, came to America as a mail-order bride. Markosian’s mother chose her future husband because he lived in Santa Barbara, a city made famous in Russia when the 1980s soap opera of that name became the first American television show broadcast there.