The Entrusted Shadow / From New Zealand to Gallipoli 1915

The Entrusted Shadow/ From New Zealand to Gallipoli 1915 is the fifth work of a Turkish writer, Emine Caykara.

Famous for her biographies and biographical works based on extended interviews, Emine Caykara is the author of an unprecedented work, which reveals the history of a negative film album. (developed, but not printed photographs). A leather album entrusted her by Mehmet Abud, whose biography she had written, tells the story that started its journey in 1914 with an Anzac soldier from New Zealand, wandered among the camps in Egypt, and settled down in Abud Mansion in İstanbul. In this album, you will find the very pictures of Anzac soldiers preparing for combat in Zeytoun camp near Suez Canal, as well as the people who lived in Abud Mansion.

This book is published in English and Turkish and unravels a completely different aspect of one of the most interesting wars of the recent past.

The cover of the book: "None of the faces in these 92-year-old photographs is alive today… Neither the soldiers whose photographs were taken, nor the people in Ismailia… But there is a shadow in some photographs… The shadow of the photographer… A New Zealand soldier… A shadow headed for war thousands of miles away from his homeland, like so many other soldiers in World War I, most probably hid his folding, not so small, camera of 1900s in his bag, to document his experiences."

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