Instead of complaining that the city lacks colors, I decided to chase colors in the city. Here is the first of my Istanbul color-coded series. Many other colors are coming up! There is one photo I'd like to draw your attention to: the last one, the produce...
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Vintage Constantinople postcards are somehow still popular in Istanbul after more than a hundred years they were first printed. It was Max Fruchtermann, an Austria-Hungarian entrepreneur, who opened a shop in Pera and popularized the picture postcards...
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...
"Does it ever snow in Istanbul?" "How cold does it get?" ask often the visitors to the city. With such a temperate climate, one is surprised to hear Istanbul has its share of snow every year like many other cities on the latitude of 40, but only for a few days:)...
It is true that we Istanbullites complain about lack of green spaces but see how nature takes over?