Ara's philosophy on photography is that he attaches great importance to the presence of humans in photography and considers himself as a visual historian. According to him, photography should provide people with memory of their suffering and their life. He feels that art can lie but photography only reflects the reality.

Life is a blank film given to you.

Try to fill every frame perfectly.

I would go up to a high place on the island and wait for the sunset to catch the moment when the sun touched the sea, and take what was called 'here is an art photograph'. However, the sun has always been setting like this for 400 million years and I was making art.

I was used to looking at the world through a rectangular window, and it will always continue that way.