During the six years of her practice, Anush Babajanyan has been dedicated to illuminating social problems overlooked by the mass media, in Armenia. Her projects tend to look at seemingly slight topics, like the ‘unorthodox’ female individuals portrayed in the Inlandish series, residents of the post 1988 earthquake Gyumri who live in temporary housing or the ecological disaster of Lake Sevan’s rising levels.

A student of the prominent Armenian documentary photographer Ruben Mangasaryan, Babajanyan has displayed a varied and at times an experimental approach in her documentary work. Each of her series is marked by a different aesthetic form that attempts to relate an emotional and sensory experience to the subject. A clearly articulated conceptual structure often underpins the photographer’s use of formal effects, such as the the out of focus, flash-lit images of the ‘Sevan Rising’ series.

Babajanyan has been active on the exhibition scene in Armenia and beyond, appearing independently or as part of the photographic collective ‘Four Plus’.

Vigen Galstyan, 2016