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Alexanian's first trip out of the country was to Peru in 1974. From 1978 to 1989 he traveled extensively to Peru documenting the life and culture of the people. He received a Fulbright Artist Fellowship in 1983 to continue his work in Peru, allowing him to live and work there for six months. The culmination of this work, Stones in the Road: Photographs of Peru, documents the migration of the Andean culture from the mountains to the shanty towns in and around Lima, one of the many tragedies caused by civil war and a growing illegal drug industry.
In 1996 Alexanian published his first major color project, the book Where Music Comes From. This work, five years in the making, documents the creative processes of twenty-five musicians including Wynton Marsalis, Philip Glass, Emmylou Harris, and Paul Simon, among others.
After traveling extensively for Stones in the Road and Where Music Comes from, Alexanian turned toward his own town: Gloucester, Massachusetts. His book, Gloucester Photographs, depicts the town he knows and loves so well, making this work both documentary and autobiographical.
In 2002, in collaboration with Wynton Marsalis, Alexanian published JAZZ, a collection of images and quotations that illustrate the musical conversation between Marsalis and his audience.
In 2005, Alexanian shot fifty portraits for the best selling book This I Believe, which also aired as a radio series on National Public Radio from 2005-2007.
Alexanian recently completed his fifth book, NONFICTION Photographs by Nubar Alexanian from the Film Sets of Errol Morris, released in the spring of 2008. This work is a long-term collaboration with Errol Morris, comprising stills from the sets of Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, Mr. Death, and Standard Operating Procedure, among others.
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