One of the most interesting things I’ve noticed since I’ve been in Yerevan is how amazingly much of the country’s women walk the streets with 4 to 5-inch heels without wincing. In their finest clothes and jewels, they put on their towering shoes and parade effortlessly on the (sometimes unstable) cobblestone streets of this small city. And don’t think they’re going to a party or a bar opening.

They walk like this to work, to school, to the supermarket, to do the most mundane of tasks, decked out in shoes that make me wobble just thinking about them.

As a result, I’ve decided to undertake a voyeuristic photography mission to document them. I’m calling it “The Yerevan Street Shoe Project” and hope to update my Flickr page with the highest and funkiest of heels I can find in Yerevan.

See all the photos so far here.