Thanks to the legacy of master photographers and the increasing number of institutions of higher education, approaches to documentary, experimental, journalistic, advertising and digital photography in Turkey were firmly established after the 1990s. At the beginning of the 21st century, Turkey’s photographers have succeeded in creating a contemporary art infrastructure for their work.
Prominent Turkish photographers up to the late 1990s, including some examples from the Ottoman period, are arranged alphabetically, lavishly illustrated by photographs.