“The Planetary Archives” (Archives de la Planète)It is a rare image archive that has been preserved until today, consisting of approximately 72 thousand autochrome photographs and hundreds of hours of film recordings taken between 1909-1931 all over the world. The founder and financier of the project is French businessman Albert Kahn. Jean Brunhes, one of the coordinators of the project, provided training to the team on what should be recorded and how. Kahn's idea that the rapidly changing world should be photographed emerged as a result of his observations during his world travel, and as soon as he returned to France, he started the necessary preparations for the project. Kahn, who experienced autochrome, the first color photograph invented by the Lumiѐre brothers, for the first time during his travels, thinks that the project should be shot with autochrome. Autochrome is a photographic technique that provides a positive color image on glass. The result is a grainy, soft and picturesque effect due to the materials used to stabilize the image. The first color photographs of cities, people and cultures in 55 countries in 22 years were produced by the photographers of the project. There are ethnographically important photographs and film recordings of Europe, Irish Celtic culture, Asia, Africa, America geography, culture and daily life in the archive. On the other hand, historically critical events and results such as the First World War and the Balkan Wars were recorded during the active period of the project. Today, the Planetary Archives are kept in the Albert Kahn Museum in France, near Paris, and the virtual sharing of the archive and the physical exhibition and presentation organizations are carried out by the organization called FAKIR.

In addition, Albert Kahn is the person who took the first color photographs of Atatürk.

Stéphane Passet, Auguste Léon, Léon Busy and Frédéric Gadmer, who were sent to many countries of the world for Albert Kanh's photography project 'Archives of the Planet', came to the Ottoman Empire and Turkey between 1912 and 1929. He photographed Adana, Afyon, Ankara, Antakya, Aydın, Bursa, Edirne, Iskenderun, Istanbul, Izmir, Karahisar, Turgutlu, Uşak, Cilicia (Adana and its surroundings) in color for more than 1600, perhaps for the first time, using the autochrome technique. Frédéric Gadmer also manages to photograph important figures of the Republic such as Rauf (Orbay) Bey and Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) Pasha with this opportunity.