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Making the Modern Turkish Citizen

A detective journey around the photo studios of the past

PHOTOGRAPH: Cultural researcher Özge Baykan Calafato has collected a fascinating photo archive by trawling Istanbul's markets for antiques and rarities. With a selection of these photographs, she analyzes the relationship between population and state ideology during the establishment of the secular republic of Turkey in the 1920s and 1930s.
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