YEREVAN BY ROGER CAMP 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 93
I photographed this swimming pool for its wonderful aquas, blues, purples, and greens. And the man in the pink shirt.
The swimming pool is roughly in the center of Armenia by Lake Sevan, one of the largest fresh-water high-altitude lakes in Eurasia. I spent a day driving around the lake visiting a number of ancient 13-14th century buildings. And the swimming pool.
I teach photography, and a former student, Jason Perez, invited me to go with him to Armenia where he was teaching drone photography and mapping at a technology and design center in Yerevan.
Jason and his assistant, Saul, and I, all of us photographers, rented a car on weekends and explored the countryside.
Regardless of where we went we would see the leftovers of the Soviet occupation in abandoned factories including a watch factory across the street from our apartment in Yerevan.
It often seemed as if the Russians had left the day before instead of 1991. We climbed aboard a …