The experience of Armenian women during the Armenian Genocide of 1915 remains largely unknown and out of the mainstream. The artist Lucia Choulakian, born in Acadia and descendant of the fourth generation of Armenian genocide survivors, seeks to understand and express this trauma that has been transmitted to her. It is then through a photographic project, autobiographical in nature, Dé-génération-elles, that she expresses this transgenerational trauma. This project is based on photographs of Armenian tattooed women, survivors of the Armenian genocide, found in the archives. This paper presents the process of creating Dé-génération-elles in order to demonstrate how theoretical and practical devices intersected in her creative process while highlighting how the theoretical and archival aspects allowed her to develop her artwork that addresses the transmission of trauma. Following a historical and methodological contextualization, her creative process is presented chronologically.