Salt Research
Yıldız Çelik Archive
Leather workers at a factory in Kazlıçeşme, 1989
Salt Research, Yıldız Çelik Archive
Salt Research, Yıldız Çelik Archive
The archive of photographer and photojournalist Yıldız Çelik, whose work focuses on people’s stories, is now accessible at archives.saltresearch.org.
Incorporated into the City, Society, and Economy Archive at Salt Research, the collection highlights Çelik’s photographs taken around Kazlıçeşme and the Galata Bridge in Istanbul in the late 1980s. Her images taken just before the relocation of the leather factories in Kazlıçeşme to Tuzla capture the working conditions of factory laborers, while her photographs of Eminönü and Karaköy document the construction of the new Galata Bridge and the transformation of the surrounding area.
About Yıldız Çelik
Born in Istanbul in 1960, Yıldız Çelik received photography training at the Istanbul Photography and Cinema Amateurs Association (İFSAK) in 1982. She began her professional career in 1987 at Tempo magazine and later worked as a culture and arts photographer and reporter for Cumhuriyet newspaper. Known for projects including “Life in the Southeast” and “Life in Syria,” Çelik won third prize in the Yunus Nadi Photography Award in 1990 for her photograph Migration from Bulgaria. Between 2007 and 2013, she worked on documentary projects in Southeastern Anatolia, as well as in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Georgia. Her work in Syria received the “Research–Investigation” award in the İsmail Sivri Journalism Competition organized by the Federation of Journalists of Turkey in 2012. In addition to her photography practice, she continues to work as a primary school teacher, writer, and illustrator, producing stories that center on children and collective memory.
Salt Research City, Society, and Economy Archive
The archive collections at Salt Research encompass over 2,000,000 unique digitized resources on art, architecture, design, city, society, and economy. Visual materials in the City, Society, and Economy Archive include printed photographs, glass negatives and positives, slides, film negatives, postcards, and photocards, offering insight into education, social life, and the built environment from the 19th century to the present.
Incorporated into the City, Society, and Economy Archive at Salt Research, the collection highlights Çelik’s photographs taken around Kazlıçeşme and the Galata Bridge in Istanbul in the late 1980s. Her images taken just before the relocation of the leather factories in Kazlıçeşme to Tuzla capture the working conditions of factory laborers, while her photographs of Eminönü and Karaköy document the construction of the new Galata Bridge and the transformation of the surrounding area.
About Yıldız Çelik
Born in Istanbul in 1960, Yıldız Çelik received photography training at the Istanbul Photography and Cinema Amateurs Association (İFSAK) in 1982. She began her professional career in 1987 at Tempo magazine and later worked as a culture and arts photographer and reporter for Cumhuriyet newspaper. Known for projects including “Life in the Southeast” and “Life in Syria,” Çelik won third prize in the Yunus Nadi Photography Award in 1990 for her photograph Migration from Bulgaria. Between 2007 and 2013, she worked on documentary projects in Southeastern Anatolia, as well as in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Georgia. Her work in Syria received the “Research–Investigation” award in the İsmail Sivri Journalism Competition organized by the Federation of Journalists of Turkey in 2012. In addition to her photography practice, she continues to work as a primary school teacher, writer, and illustrator, producing stories that center on children and collective memory.
Salt Research City, Society, and Economy Archive
The archive collections at Salt Research encompass over 2,000,000 unique digitized resources on art, architecture, design, city, society, and economy. Visual materials in the City, Society, and Economy Archive include printed photographs, glass negatives and positives, slides, film negatives, postcards, and photocards, offering insight into education, social life, and the built environment from the 19th century to the present.
