Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov (Russian: Дмитрий Иванович Ермаков) (1846 – November 10, 1916) was a Russian photographer known for his series of the Caucasian photographs.
Life and career
Yermakov was born in Tiflis in 1846, the son of the Italian architect Luigi Caribaggio and a Georgian mother of Austrian descent. She remarried the Russian Ermakov whose surname her son Dmitry took. Trained as a military topographer, he took part in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878).
As an adult, he operated photographic businesses in Tiflis. He traveled extensively as far as Iran and participated in several archaeological expeditions in the Caucasus, leaving a series of unique photographs. These photographs document the lifestyles, customs and costumes of Russian people in the late 19th-century forming an important ethnographic record of the region and its inhabitants. Thousands of his negatives are now kept at Georgian museums.[1]
Work
Armenian noble woman from Tiflis, date unknown
Girls and Aged Woman Djeg Settlement, 1880
The House of Arshakuni, 1884–86
Princess Lazarev in Tatar costume, date unknown
A Jew with nuts, date unknown
Georgians with national clothes, date unknown
Kurd in the Russian service,
Shah Abbas mosque in Ganja, early 1900s
Rug Deal at the Tiflis Bazaar, date unknown
The Oriental Bath, 1880
Bibliography
Dimitri Ermakov In Iran (with Irina Koshoridze, Lika Mamatsashvili, Grigol Beradze), 2019, ISBN9789941817564