Photograph of Nazım Hasan Gambil no. 6

Photograph of Nazım Hasan Gambil from the village of Angastina. It was taken in Ahmet Şevki’s studio in Nicosia, not later than 1917. Nazım covered for a younger relative who had committed a murder. He was found guilty in the court and was condemned to death. He was hanged by the British authorities in 1922. It is a stylized studio photograph taken in front of artificial, painted and rolled decoration. The same flower decoration can be recognized in the background of other photographs. The man is stand­ing with his left hand resting on a corner table with a vase full of flowers on it. He looks very serious. He has short hair and a moustache with its ends turning upwards. He wears a gömlek (shirt) with a separate collar and buttons, as well as a striped tie. His two-piece dark-col­oured suit (trousers and jacket) is of western style. In the left breast pocket of the jacket is a white silk handkerchief. His black kundura (shoes, turk. kuntura) are closed with buttons at the sides. This attire has been characterized as an example of the British-Ottoman dress chaos (Ingiliz-Osmanlı kıyafet kargaşası; kıyafet = dress, general appearance; kargaşa, kargaşalık = confusion, disorder).