A Talk on Alaminüt Photography by Lukas Birk 

🕙️ 14:00-15:00
📍 Soho House Istanbul

Şip Şak! A Journey into Turkey’s Forgotten Street Photography

Join researcher and publisher Lukas Birk for an illuminating talk on Alaminüt Photography—a uniquely Turkish tradition of street portraiture, affectionately known as Şipşak. Practiced in city squares and along seafronts from the 1910s through the 1960s—and surviving into the 1990s in places like Istanbul’s Yeni Cami—this fully analogue method brought photography into the daily lives of ordinary people. Drawing on years of research and an expansive archive, Birk uncovers the story of the photogra Show More