British Pathé, the world's leading film and newsreel producer shared their entire archive on You Tube last year; did you hear that? More than 85,000 short documentaries, which captured significant events of the 20th century are now accessible...
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Blue Mosque
Libraries never fail to inspire me... SALT research library is definitely one of them. The amazing find of the week was Istanbul city telephone directories. I remember amusing myself with those bulky phone books when I was a kid. Maybe I was just...
Photo credit: Adam Rosendahl I met Adam Rosendahl through 2 degrees of separation. When I had a look at his web page, LATE NITE ART, I immediately knew I wanted to be a part of his LNA in Istanbul. I got in touch with him and then put him in touch with...
Born and raised in Istanbul, Aslı loves travelling to exotic places. Yet, she says she always comes back to Istanbul homesick. One of my partners in crime, Aslı accompanies me while I am doing field research and we love exploring ins and outs of the city...
In the 1990s, a photo historian's discovery of Charles W. Cushman's archive revealed the '30s world in color, an era which we are very much used to seeing in black. It turned out that Cushman, an amateur photographer, was one of the early adopters of Kodak's...
The end of the Ramadan. A month of fasting in the Muslim calendar is over. I made it to the Sultanahmet square to photograph the mahyas of the blue mosque on its last day! Mahya, the message written in lights and strung between 2 minarets or between...