Akunyan has been interested in photography since1980, while studying at Radiophysics Faculty of the Yerevan State University. After some years of working at the Astro Scientific Research Union in Yerevan, Akulyan turned to journalism in 1992 and has worked as a photo-correspondent for the news media, publishing in Hayastani Hanrapetutyun, Orrannewspapers and the French-Armenian magazine Nouvelle d’Armenie.

Vigen Galstyan, 2016