THE TURKISH- CRETAN WHO CAPTURED HISTORY

Rahmizade Behaedin transferred in his glass plates pictures of Crete. According to myth he was riding his white horse around the island capturing images of landscape and people, while many Cretans fascinated with the new invention visited his photographic studio for their first family photo.
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Born in Constantinople on 1875 in a rich family, he finished elementary school at Chania on 1886, high school on 1889 at Constantinople, and lyceum on 1895 at Galata Seray. Ηe returns to Crete on 1896 and works during his early youth as a bookseller and photographer. He leaves Crete on 1910 when pressured by the Turkish regime of the time. The photographer who loved Crete, had regularly captured Cretan Resistance fighters and Christian symbols and churches something irritating to the Ottoman rulers.
Smyrna was the next canvas for the Turkish photographer where he stayed for the next two to three years. He returned to Constantinople on 1915 (others move that towards 1925) and started from scratch his “Resna” photo studio. Twenty years later he moves to Ankara starting a new photo shop called “Otopus”. He becomes the manager of the photographic department in the Turkish History Organization on 1937. His life journey ends back in Constantinople on 1951