Photo Essay: Images from Istanbul
1. Outside Topkapi Palace.
2. Grape leaves stuffed with rice, resting in a bed of salt.
3. Turkish yentas converse outside a local restaurant.
4. The Spice Bazaar.
5. In awe at the Blue Mosque.
6. Feet must be washed before entering the mosque to pray.
7. Praying solo in the Blue Mosque.
8. Husband and wife shop together.
9. Colors of light in a random lamp store.
10. These columns were erected by the Ottoman Empire.
11. A Turkish woman rushes to her daughter, hiding behind a column.
12. A fisherman en route between “Asia” and “Europe.”
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Great pics! I love the one of the old men admiring the Blue Mosque.
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Gorgeous set! I can’t wait to see the place for myself.
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hi, ur pics are very nice but ı should ask that why you just took the religious paart of İstanbul? ım living in istanbul and ım sure that the people living here are very modern and educated. in your pics, why you wanted to show the others just the headscarfeds or men who wears baggy trousers? ı think you should also be introduced the modern and enlightened sides of our city and country. people who come and visit our country will not be able to see such an old fashioned people. yes, we have wonderful bazaars and mosques, but as you know, thats not all !
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Wonderful photos!!
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Istanbul is a place I’ve wanted to visit for awhile now … the pictures definitely reaffirm my interest. I especially like the ones with the colorful spices and lamps.
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Beautiful photos!
But I went to Turkey and I saw women and youth. Didn’t you see any ?↵ -
What colorful photos! Looks like a beautiful place.
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“As usual you capure a moment of beauty in each picture!
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Beautiful photos. Can’t wait to visit.
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I have to agree with Zeynep and Philippe… your pictures are beautiful, but I’m not sure they necessary paint an accurate picture of Turkey. Turkey is by nature a secular country and in the five weeks that I spent there I saw lots of women, but very few in the full, black burqas. Istanbul, in particular the district of Taksim, is highly influenced by western culture and much more indicative of Turkey’s modernity.
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Bravo to Allison, an especially gifted photographer we’re delighted to have featured in Big World Magazine, too. To those who complain about her focus: one photographer’s essay is her a point of view, not a comprehensive portrait of a city or country. That’s the art of it (the novelist Orhan Pamuk receives similar flak http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/books/review/Hansen-t.html?scp=2&sq=orhan%20pamuk&st=cse).
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The photos are amazing. I lived in Turkey for six years (4 in Istanbul) and those images beautifully show that one side of life (Turkey has a million aspects and you’d need ages to begin to show it). One thing though: in number 2, those aren’t the rice stuffed vine leaves covered in salt- they are just the raw ones soaked in brine for preservation, bundled up together and rolled for sale. I don’t want anyone to accidentally pick up a salt-encrusted roll and bite into it, thinking it’s a yaprak sarmasi!
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Gorgeous photos! So colorful and vivid. Can’t wait to visit Istanbul!
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Istanbul (and all of Turkey) is just brimming with interwoven history and modernity all together, there at the crossroads of the world. It is not possible to broadly portray the spirit of the city in a few photos. But these photos are visual delights and a compelling invitation to visit and experience for yourself ! We saw the Dervish dancers by candlelight in the subterranean basilica cistern and this visual combined with the acoustics to create an unforgettable experience. I visited Selimiye Kushlisa in Uskudar where Florence Nightingale (the lady of the lamp) had her hospital and where she and her nurses and doctors treated the British survivors of the Charge Of The Light Brigade across the Black Sea in the Crimean War. The cemetery (where those for whom her ministrations were in vain are at eternal ‘parade rest’ ) behind the fortress is most moving. and don’t forget dining at Ciragon Palace on the Bosporus and having salt-baked seabass at Korfez ! i am going to go buy my ticket ! NEXT TRIP !
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everything you captured looks so beautiful and colorful ! i want to visit Istanbul too..
particularly, #11 the turkish woman is a very nice pic… #12 the fisheye his shot is so cute!
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