The collection comprises nearly 5,000 photographs documenting the social and spatial transformation of Türkiye from 1978 to the early 2000s. The black-and-white images, often focused on people, capture the struggles of the working class—from women working in the highlands of the Black Sea and nomads raising livestock in the Taurus Mountains to miners in Zonguldak, fishermen in İzmir, cotton farmers in Adana, and child laborers on construction sites in Istanbul. The archive also includes photographs from the demolition of slums in Istanbul and the changing landscape of Beyoğlu during the construction of Tarlabaşı Boulevard in the 1980s.