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Developing identities: the history of the Turkish Cypriot photographic subject

Adil’s chapter, in this comprehensive and definitive edited volume about Cypriot Photographic practice, explores the relationship between memory, photography and identity in the context of her Turkish Cypriot cultural identity and photographic practice. Informed by Foucault (2001) and Said’s (1985) analysis of the discursive practices which emerge through public policy, political discourse, literature and art Adil’s approach is autoethnographic, integrating an examination of photographs from the family archive in the context of documentary, art and studio images in order to consider both the social, and the personal significations which cohere around photographic representations of Cyprus and Cypriots.