List of Turkish photographers

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Ara Güler is a Turkish Armenian photojournalist, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul".

Ayhan Çakar new generation photographer. He was born in Germany in 1973 and stayed there with his parent until seven years old. He has been studying on important album projects. Some of these are One1stanbul, One1urkei, One1World, Silk Road, Ottoman Countries and so on.

Ömer Asan, Ömer Şükrü Asan (born May 28, 1961 in Trabzon, Turkey), is a Turkish folklorist, photographer and writer.

Uğur Uluocak, Yaşar Uğur Uluocak (1962 – July 2, 2003) was a Turkish outdoorsman, mountaineer, photographer, and editor.

19th century photography

History

Already in the 1870s printing companies were using photography in major coastal cities to document buildings and monuments for the municipal government, and to produce postcards for tourists. In this way cities like Smyrna (Izmir) and Trebizond (Trabzon) were documented in the late 19th century. The majority of these photographers and postcard editors were Greeks, Armenians and Italians. A photographer of Russian origin called Armakof opened a photostudio in Trabzon in 1868.[1] In some cities however, there were Turks active in the business as well. Kitabi Hamdi Efendi (Bookseller Hamdi), the Turkish owner of a printing house in Trabzon, was publishing his photographs (and those of others), and he sold photo cameras as well. Another Turkish photographer and postcard editor who was active from the late 19th century in Trabzon was Osman Nouri.

One of the first Turkish photographers by profession was Rahmizâde Bâhâeddin Bediz who opened his photostudio in Crete and later in Istanbul. He was active also in the first half of 20th century as a pioneer photographer in Turkey.

Further, as one of the earliest photographers in Turkey, Pascal Sebah, who was born in Istanbul, but not fully Turkish, had his photostudio in Istanbul.

The first half of 20th century

History

Further, Othmar Pferschy, non-Turkish photographer, opened his photo studio in Istanbul in 1931 and actively took documentary photographs.

The second half of 20th century and 21st century

History

In this period, there are emerging numerous Turkish photographers active in and outside of Turkey. For each photographers, please see Category:Turkish photographers and Category:Turkish photojournalists.

non-Turkish photographers relating to or (were or are) active in Turkey

Relating museums, institutions, universities, associations or groups

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ Unisentified Armenian Boy and Mother (1890s) Web-page on photograph of Armenians in Trabzon

External links

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