I. Bashinjaghyan's primary studio was located in Tiflis and had branches in Pyatigorsk and Novocherkassk which operated in partnership with the Georgian photographer Kikiani. The Tbilisi studio was located in the commercial house of Zubarov on Golovalsky Avenue. Bashinjaghyan’s establishment served the working and middle classes, providing simple portraits without any extravagant embellishments. The noted Armenian landscape painter Gevorg Bashinjaghyan was photographed in I. Bashinjaghyan’s studio, however there is no concrete evidence that the two men were related. Based on the lack of photographs bearing Bashinjaghyan’s stamp made after the 1900s, we assume that the photographer either sold or closed his business by the early 1910s.

Vigen Galstyan, 2016