Istanbul - To the City

Looking at these pictures is an unsettling mirror play. The more I look at them, the more they look at me. They don’t testify, they have nothing to tell but they have their shadow. By taking these pictures I do not mean to photograph life but to bring them to life, to look for their own light. Istanbul represents much more than a city to me, it is the home of memories. A place of multiple borders where my childhood rests. This work is a confrontation, a pictural quest of lost treasures. In them, I build a vision, a bridge spanning the past to reveal a secret to the present : time does not exist. The photographic act offers me such possibility as to hold back minute fragments of eternity… Here and now, I stop time to see further and harder. In an ultimate burst of the soul, I take a picture the way poems are written, the way words shed light on us, the way pictures tell about us.