Eda Sancakdar Onikinci is a researcher whose interests include 19th-century visual culture, histories of photography, visual representation of the face, and construction and visualisation of personal memory through archives. She has an MFA in Visual Communication Design from İstanbul Bilgi University where from 2011 to June 2017 she was also a lecturer in the Department of Film. Her teaching included theoretical and practical courses on the representation of the face and the body and the relationship between the spectator and the screen. Her current research investigates the overlooked history of photographic representation of Ottoman/Muslim women. Exploring both official and personal photographic archives, her research focuses on how photographic camera altered the definition of the “feminine”, by rendering female face (in)visible through discursive photographic practices.