When: Defying Time and Transformation

In this journey, Suner has transformed his passion for historical photography—almost his lifeblood—into a vast documentary project. With a van converted into a mobile darkroom, a companion tent, and a wooden bellows camera, he recorded Istanbul’s transhistorical face across 72 different locations.

In contrast to the sterile images of today’s digital age, Suner employs long-forgotten photographic techniques that merge chemistry with art—such as wet collodion, platinum-palladium, albumen printing, opaltype, and orotone. Distilled from a body of 751 handmade negative and positive glass plates, this selection demonstrates that photography is not merely the act of “capturing an image,” but a process of creation in its own right.

From the depths of Yarımburgaz Cave—where the earliest traces of human presence in Istanbul were discovered—to the city’s modern skyline, the exhibition culminates in a special section featuring a 11-meter-long Istanbul panorama composed of seven panels. Alongside this monumental work, each image brought to life in the shadow of the time-worn tent—positioned within the exhibition space itself—offers the viewer a reality at the molecular level of photography.

Yapı Kredi bomontiada - GALLERY

Historic Bomonti Brewey

Merkez Mahallesi Silahşör Caddesi

Birahane Sokak no 1 Şişli İstanbul