“[Eleonora] Arhelaou took most of the photographs by walking through different parts of Istanbul. The consecutive strips of 36 exposures show that she sometimes walked from İstiklal Avenue to Tarlabaşı and then on to Tepebaşı, Kasımpaşa, and Karaköy, covering most of these neighborhoods on foot. Given that each generation has a different memory and perspective of the city, Arhelaou’s documentation spanning more than twenty years can be said to play an important role in preserving information about buildings that, for various reasons, have not survived amid the city’s rapid transformation.”
Görkem İmrek of the Salt Research and Programs team, who carried out the archive’s digitization and cataloging, discusses the #EleonoraArhelaou Archive on #SaltBlog.
To explore the archive, which creates a comprehensive inventory of Istanbul’s structures and streets and was made accessible in November 2021: https://archives.saltresearch.org
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