Istanbul Photographer

17/12/2023

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Words and Pictures from the Middle East

22/05/2022

Its very nice

13/04/2022

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A collection of Steet Photography from the Turkish city of Istanbul. Istanbul has some of the best locations for the street photographer.

09/03/2022

Forget balloons ride a horse

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02/03/2022

Mardin
Not always honey coloured domes and minarets
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04/02/2022

July 4th 2005. Kizkalesi, Mersin, Turkey. Kızkalesi The Maiden's Castle, also known as Deniz kalesi is a castle situated on a small island in Mersin Province of Turkey

10/01/2022

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The pr******te fidgeted uncomfortably beside me, her knee brushing mine, a glass of tea, and a cigarette in the same hand. The sound of the police radio a constant crackle of an unintelligible code…

26/09/2021

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Master Oud maker Dr. Cengiz Sarikus and his son Veysel at work in his Istanbul workshop

25/09/2021

The Visualization Laboratory at KAUST is a state-of-the-art facility that offers students, faculty, researchers and university collaborators a unique opportunity to utilize one-of-a-kind visualization, interaction, and computational resources for the exploration and presentation of scientific data

08/07/2021

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Hand made in Istanbul
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Dr. Cengiz Sarikus puts the finishing touches to a violin he has made in his workshop in the Aksaray neighborhood of Istanbul.

30/10/2020

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Maher shuffled his way into the coffee-shop sneezing, coughing and complaining, his flip-flops hardly lifting from the dusty floor as he moved, I’m sick he announced to the waiter who didn’t look a…

09/08/2020

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Atmeh camp clings to the side of a hill on the edge of the Syrian-Turkish border. Colored plastic bags flap like flags trapped in the rolls of razor wire that separate the two countries. Turkish so…

18/02/2020

https://johnwreford.wordpress.com/2020/02/16/the-rubbish-collectors-of-istanbul/
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Faceless men and women, struggling up rain soaked cobbled hills clogged with traffic. Faces windswept and facing the floor. Ignored and cursed in equal measure. These wretched images as iconic in I…

01/02/2020

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Saying goodbye to Tarlabasi Tarlabasi is a hive of informal commerce, the streets alive, trade and toil and the struggle to survive in a city overwhelmed, carts with squeaky wheels pushed up and do…

06/01/2020

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Strabo must have scrambled his way to the peak of Erciyes, one of the Volcanoes that surround the tectonic crossroads of Cappadocia in the heart of Anatolian Turkey, scribbling in his ancient noteb…

19/11/2019

More from the Blog
The story of the girl on the ferry
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The commuter crowd was pushing forward towards the gang plank to catch the six o’clock ferry to Kadikoy, shuffling a few steps at a time in the chill January air, it hadn’t started to rain yet but …

19/11/2019

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19/11/2019

New images added to my commercial portfolio-take a look
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Commercial Industrial and Corporate Photography from Turkey and around the Middle East