Engin Özendes, through her book Photography in the Ottoman Empire 1839 - 1919 published in 1987, for the first time in the history of world photography has brought to light Sebah & Joaillier, which is the most significant representative of orientalism in photography.
Tracing after Sebah & Joaillier while she was preparing the book Abdullah Freres: Ottoman Court Photographers that we published in 1998, Engin Özendes was able to prepare this new book in the light of purely new finding ...