Isai (Itzhok) Iudovich Kadysh was born in 1870 in the city of Omsk. He was a petty bourgeois. The son of a retired soldier, the Omsk photographer Iuda Iudovich Kadysh. He opened his “Siberian Photography” studio in Tobolsk, obtaining a certificate in May 1889. A year later, in May 1890, he received permission to open his own photography studio in Tyumen. After moving, at the corner of the street…Tsarskaya and Voynovskaya opened “I.Kadysh’s Photographic Studio in Tyumen,” which existed until 1908. Here, as in Tobolsk, he did not fail to engage in portrait photography. Well‑known Tyumen merchants — the Gilevs, Kolokolnikovs, and Zhernakovs — placed orders with Isa Kadysh for family and individual photos. His name is recorded on hundreds of branded mat boards, which feature photographs he took of residents of the Tobolsk Governorate.
He was known for his photo albums, the pages of which consisted of montages made from architectural and interior shots of the client’s enterprise, portraits of employees, various tools, maps, and so on. Thus, he went down in the history of the region as the chronicler of industrial Tyumen. But he first tried his technique of composing group photographs and elements of industrial symbolism in Tobolsk, after he received a commission from the employees of the “Sibirskaya‑2” dredge in 1889–1890.
Photo albums in Tyumen:
- 1892 – Zhabynsky Mechanical (Shipbuilding) Plant;
- 1893 – Tyumen Section of the Perm–Tyumen Railway;
- 1898 – Steam Navigation on the Rivers of Western Siberia by the Partnership “Kurbatov and Ignatov”.
In 1908, he returned to the city of Omsk, where he inherited his father’s business after his death. In Omsk, the Kadyshev house on the corner of Pushkin Street and Dumskaya Street (Dumskaya, 5) has survived to this day.