Abdullah Frères, three Ottoman Armenian brothers Vichen (1820–1902), Hovsep (1830–1908) and Kevork Abdullah (1839–1918) who ran a profitable studio in Constantinople with other locations in Cairo Continue reading →

Among the many Armenian photographers who worked in Egypt between 1880s and 1950s, the role of Aram Alban is of particular significance. He was a man who had an unusual and complex fate. Continue reading →

After his return to Egypt soon after WWII, the noted photographer Aram Alban hired a young woman named Shake to help him run the operations of the Alban studio in Cairo. Very quickly Shake became Alban’s right-hand person and would … Continue reading →

No biographical details were located. The photographer’s studio was located in Tiflis, Georgia, at the turn of the 20th century.

Charles Smith Allen was a pioneer photographer in Wales, renowned as the finest of Tenby’s early camera artists. Born in Rugeley, Staffordshire, in 1831, a few surviving paper negatives show that he was recording Tenby in silver towards the end … Continue reading →