Hayk Kirakosyan

Hayk Kirakosyan was born in USSR in 1962. His father was an engineer-designer and his mother was an electronics engineer. His interest in cinema started at age of 11 when he began to study photography at Art School and subsequently continued his education in Cinematography department at State Institute of Cinema (VGIK. Moscow). He graduated from Vladimir Monakhov’s class as a valedictorian student when he was 22. As a student, he was employed as a trainee camera assistant with famous cinematographers such as Leonid Kalashnikov, Albert Yavuryan and Levon Atoyants. After completing his education at VGIK (MFA), he started working as a cinematographer on several short and full-length documentary, feature and animation films. He was also a lecturer at the Cinema Television Department Faculty of State Pedagogical Institute (Yerevan, USSR) between 1987 and 1991.