Cemre Yeşil Gönenli’s book Hayal & Hakikat, published by FiLBooks and Fraglich Publishing, deals with the themes of forgiveness and punishment through photographs of prisoners from the reign of Abdülhamid II. Through images taken from Ottoman archives, the book juxtaposes the possibility
Since the beginning of the 1800s, the reorganisation of Istanbul, like European cities, has been one of the main agendas of the state. For many years, Ottoman administrators dreamed of constructing a capital city with organised streets and boulevards, replacing wood with
