Emma Kazaryan is a multimedia artist, journalist, and filmmaker based in New York City. She has worked on wide-ranging topics including geopolitics, conflicts, arts, culture, sports, and business. She has contributed to numerous film projects for HBO, ABC News, Al-Jazeera, Conde Nast, the United Nations, and other publications. She holds a master’s degree from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and Photography from Baruch College, CUNY.
Merging art and journalism, she combines different forms of media to tell a compelling story. Her experimental multimedia video Heroin Highway was a part of a group exhibition The Curse of Geography organized by ArtsEverywhere publication and the Art Gallery of Guelph in Canada. Her recent film Waltz Noir, created in collaboration with Polina Nazaykinskaya and Michael Spencer Phillips, premiered at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and was selected for the 2020 Quiet City Film Festival in New York.
In 2020 she joined Site-Specific Dances as a videographer and editor.