Silik Fotoğraflar is a book consisting of Orhan Okay's writings in the genre of literary portraits and memories. In the book, he has included 30 different names, most of which he knew during his childhood and youth. In his words, these names are “people who spend their lives to glorify a truth, a good, a beauty like digging a well with a needle”. Names such as Nurettin Topçu, Celâl Hoca, Abdülaziz Bekkine Efendi and Rahmi Eray are people he knew during his secondary school and high school years and he was close to him. This closeness has been effective in both his multifaceted upbringing and enriched the world of heart. Mehmet Kaplan is another name that he was a student of during his university years and was influential in shaping his life later and he also has a separate work about him. Necip Fazıl, Yahya Kemal and Peyami Safa are the artists he knew, listened to, wrote about them and taught in his lessons. Seyfettin Özege, Süheyl Ünver, Reşat Ekrem Koçu, as friends of the book and people who have served our culture, are mentioned among small memories with some of their characteristics. Kaya Bilgegil and Halûk İpekten are the names he wrote about as his colleague. In short, the book consists of articles written on occasions such as death or death anniversary, remembrance, and the author also describes himself with them.