Andriomenos, Nikolaos

Nikolaos Andriomenos (1850/1-1929) was one of the most important early photographers in Turkey. He was first employed at a very young age (11) by the photographic studio of the Abdullah Frères (in the area of Pera [Beyoğlu], Istanbul, Turkey); six years later, he bought the building and established his own studio. He won a prize at the Paris Fair of 1903 and taught photography to the then successor to the Ottoman throne. His studio was subsequently taken over by his son Athanasios; it was totally destroyed in 1955, during the “September events” (or “Istanbul pogrom”).