Biayna Mahari was born in Armenia in 1989. In 2011 she graduated from the Russian Armenian Slavonic University and got a masters degree in Applied Mathematics and Informatics. She has been working as a software developer and later as a project manager in an IT company, but eventually quit all of her jobs to work as a photographer. Since 2009 she has worked as a freelance photographer, mainly specializing in documentary photography.
Этнические армяне, которые мигрировали из одной союзной республики в другую до распада СССР, возвращаясь в Армению, часто задаются вопросом - являются они представителями диаспоры или же можно считать себя местным?