Eduard Ghahramanyan, father of Reuters freelance photographer David Ghahramanyan, reacts as they leave Nagorno-Karabakh region

Eduard Ghahramanyan, father of Reuters freelance photographer David Ghahramanyan, reacts as they leave Nagorno-Karabakh region with other family members, on the road leading towards the Armenian border, in Nagorno-Karabakh, September 26, 2023. After a swift operation by Azerbaijan's military to retake control of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, ethnic Armenians fled for the Armenian border in September. Photographer David Ghahramanyan and his family traveled with them along a clogged mountain road. Cars, trucks, buses and tractors wound along the pass, often in two or three lines of traffic, all heading one way. A journey of 77 km (48 miles) from Stepanakert to the Armenian border took Ghahramanyan and his family 24 hours. They had expected it to take just two hours. As the forced exodus took its toll, Ghahramanyan captured an image of his father shedding a tear by the roadside.