As water has always been scarce in the region where Islam has flourished, the Ottomans celebrated the abundance of water by erecting elegant, colossal fountains in the places, where settlement was to be encouraged. With the modern water supply systems,...
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Golden Horn
The legend is that Judas Iscariot hanged himself on the redbud tree after betraying Jesus. In the morning, out of embarrassment, the tree blushed turning its white flowers into pink, thus called the Judas tree. The Bosphorus is at its best in the spring...
Life as it is in the mid 60s. Interesting to see that Turkish way of life has been still prevalent in some ways in many neighborhoods. Can you recognize some of the landmarks and places? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTVHXOKUxDQ&feature=youtu.be
A detail from the Istanbul Design Week held annually on the old Galata bridge. Precisely, a hundred years ago it was referred as the new Galata bridge by Owen William in his photo, Ode to the new bridge. The old bridge connecting two sides of Halic, the Golden...
This new bridge connecting both sides of the Golden Horn, Haliç, was photographed by Owen Williams, a correspondent for National Geographic magazine. Considered as one of the pioneers of travel photography, Williams was lucky enough to be often at the right...
Othmar Pferschy's 1950 dated photos remind us of how once upon a time fishing was indispensible to Istanbul way of life.
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