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 rising levels of the Lake Sevan with all its insuing ecological problems.

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 varied 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. A good example of this are the out of focus, flash-lit images of the ‘Sevan Rising’ series, which relay the hidden terror of the unknown effects of an upcoming ecological disaster.

Babajanyan has been active on the exhibition scene in Armenia and beyond, appearing independently or as part of the photographic collective ‘Four Plus’. In 2013 she held a solo exhibition at Dalan Gallery, Yerevan and has participated in notable group exhibitions such as ‘mOther Armenia’ (2013, Yerevan) and ‘Trouble in Paradise’ (2014, Yerevan). In 2013 Babajanyan also published her first photobook, ‘Moved’, which displayed her strikingly diverse interests through the combination of two photo-reportage and conceptual series.