Starting in the 1850s Armenians became dominant among Palestine 's photographers . The central figure in this development was the leading cleric Esayee Garabedian , who were to become Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1864-65 , and who started photographing in 1857 and established a photography workshop within the St. James monastic compound . There he set up a school for photography , Garabed Krikorian ( 1847-1920 ) and his brother Kevork counting among his students . Other 19th-century Armenian photographers from Jerusalem are J. H. Halladjian , M. Mardikian and Yusuf Toumaian . After the Armenian Genocide other photographers joined them , including Hrnat Nakashian and Elia Kahvedjian
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Armenians in Israel