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#Resistanbul Diaries #1 Sleepless in Istanbul

THE CREEPY VISION I HAD...Three weeks ago; I had a nightmare. We are in a post-apocalyptic city... Abandoned buildings, dead silence in deserted streets, no soul around. We find shelter in an old, empty plant... More people pour in. A friend...

Cushman’s archive: Istanbul in the ’60s

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 man with the acanthus beard

A depiction of a man with acanthus beard from the mosaic museum, one of the most underrated places in the city. The only thing that remains from the 6th century Great Palace of the Byzantine Constantinople is the floor tiles of a peristyle courtyard....

Urban Transformation Projects #2

In the name of regeneration, the old historic neighborhood of Istanbul, Tarlabaşı, will be confined to the memories of Istanbullites very soon. It used to be inhabited mostly by the Greeks since the mid 1800s and by migrants from Anatolia since the 1960s....

Ode to the new bridge

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...

Bird houses of Maçka Park

Bird houses are too small for the birds, though they look lovely. They are hanging on the tress in Maçka Park, once the extended gardens of the Dolmabahçe Palace. The construction of this 19th century palace was necessary as the imperial Topkapı...

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