YELDEĞIRMENI GRAFFITI FESTIVAL Mural Ist, organized by Kadıköy Municipality and the Foundation for Protection and Promotion of Environmental and Cultural Values, ÇEKÜL, left Yeldeğirmeni neighborhood in colors this fall. Together with the local...
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One day when I was on my way to the Spice Bazaar in the dolmus, colorful stairs on the right side of the road caught my attention leaving a huge smile on my face. After a moment of awe, I was asking myself if this is the city I have been trying to escape...
The Syrian consulate is here in Nişantaşı. For a while I worked in a beautiful art-nouveau building, the Ralli, where the consulate is located. I was fresh out of the university daydreaming of travelling abroad; taking long trips around the world....
A mish mash of street art in Cihangir... "Love of men kills 3 women every day." Statistics say so. The unofficial number is probably much higher.
Cihangir has become a hip and vibrant neighborhood with quite a mix of expats, students, artists and writers in the past decade. It did have its share of the facelift operations raging in the city, which gave way to alfresco dining scene, haute-couture...
JUST MEMORIES...More than a decade ago, when the words "Galata" and "gentrification" were used in the same sentence, it did not mean much to me; I did not see it coming. There was not a single soul in the back streets, and it would give me a chill ...
When the urban projects for regeneration turned out to be true, not a myth, and the demolition for the Tarlabaşı district was confirmed, many people I know rushed to the area to say goodbye, and to make pictures of the buildings soon to be knocked down....
Another arty day around Galata... Graffiti works get disappeared so quickly here so don't expect to see these works of art if you walk around Galata today.
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