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Armenia: Rapping controversy

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Armenia, Arts & Culture, Freedom of Speech, Music, Photography, Women & Gender

Ianyan says that a photoshoot for an Armenian singer is drawing controversy in Armenia. Featuring photographs of Sako Balasanyan (Super Sako) in a “series of photographs featuring violent, misogynistic imagery of a faceless woman and him in various settings,” it also includes a picture of the singer in front of a prominent religious monument “with a gun in one hand and a barely clothed woman in the other. [1]