Uludağ: A Family Archive

“From 200 Years of Photography to 96 Years of a Family’s Memory”

Drawing on the exhibition Distant Places, Generations, Gazes, this conversation explores how photography becomes memory, a means of transmission, and, over time, a form of visual heritage within a family. Bringing together Mehmet H. Erbak, Ceylin Erbak Aytekin, Haldun Dostoğlu, and Nevzat Sayın, the gathering places side by side the different ways in which three generations have looked at the world, and the traces left by changing times in those gazes, through the lens of a family photographic archive spanning 96 years.

Extending from the 200-year history of photography to the story of a personal archive, the conversation focuses on how the desire to discover and record the world has endured across generations, how photographs carry memories, and how changing perspectives over time transform our choices about what is worth recording. Because the value of a photograph lies not only in the image it captures, but also in the lived experiences that give that image meaning and in the relationships it creates between generations. The family’s relationship with photography carries the medium beyond its role as a means of documenting the past, transforming personal memories into a shared collective memory and creating a visual heritage passed down through generations.

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