Database of Armenian photo-media practioners

Hovhannes Sergeyi Ghayfadjyan

1920 - ?

1970 - 1980s

Hovhannes Ghayfadjyan was a correspondent of Garun (Spring) journal and other Soviet-Armenian periodicals between the 1960s-80s. He came to photography at a late stage, having entered into the photo-cine department of Armenia's State Archive in 1960 as a photographer. Some ten years later, in 1971 Ghayfanajyan became a member of the USSR Union of Journalists and was also one of the more active members of 'Yerevan' photo-club. (1)

His published photographs are primarily documentary reportages as well as black and white pastoral studies depicting Armenia's villages and natural landscape. Made with schematic compositional solutions Ghayfadjyan’s photographs attempted to convey a rather idealized image of the country’s rural life. The photographer went into retirement in 1985.

1) Vahan Kochar, Hay Lusankarichner (Armenian Photographers, in Armenian), self-published, Yerevan, 2007, p.224

Nationality

Armenian

Region

USSR, Armenia, ArmSSR

City

Alexandrapol (b.), Yerevan

Activity

documentary, photo correspondent

Media

analogue photography

Bibliography

Garun, no.3, 1974 (reproduction)
Garun, no.4, 1974 (reproduction)
Garun, no.12, 1977 (reproduction)

Kochar, Vahan. Hay Lusankarichner (Armenian Photographers, in Armenian), self-published, Yerevan, 2007, p.224

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