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The History Boy

Faik Şenol’s camera transports Clara Robins back to Thirties Istanbul

  • Returning from Florya, 1930, by Faik Şenol. A party of students from Darülfünün, the Ottoman Empire’s first modern higher-education institution, after a day by the seaside

Few photographers captured the early decades of the Turkish Republic with such quiet persistence as Faik Şenol. Born in Istanbul in 1912, Şenol was just 15 when he began contributing to the forward-looking newspaper Vakit, learning the trade from Ethem Tem, Atatürk’s official photographer. By the 1930s, he had joined the city’s small pioneering circle of photojournalists, working for papers, magazines and encyclopaedias.

Şenol’s photographs, whether capturing state occasions or street corners, helped shape the visual memory of early Republican Istanbul…

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