Who is Hilmi NAKİPOĞLU?
Camera Museum, also known as Hilmi Nakipoğlu Museum of Cameras; It is a photography museum located in the Bakırköy district of Istanbul.
1946
Hilmi Nakipoğlu, born in 2009, started her photography career by printing 6x6 and 6x9 films and black and white photographs.
1960'lı
He started to photograph all the activities of the school with the photography club he founded while studying at Private Istanbul College in the years.
1970
He was also interested in music, painting, poetry and theatre. Since the 1970s, he started collecting both cameras and photographs.
What Hilmi NAKİPOĞLU Does
The collection, which reaches 900 in number, includes studio cameras, dual-lens cameras, Leica and poloraid film cameras.
Nakipoğlu, who established a school for mentally handicapped children in 1997, opened a camera museum within this school. For 10 years, the museum has been visited by communication high school, communication faculty and photography enthusiasts. Nakipoğlu, who creates a bridge for transferring the past to the future, emphasizes that it is very important to introduce the culture of collection and teach it to children and young people in particular. It continues to support dozens of projects in this regard.