A Tale of Two Istanbuls

Tagged as: cities, Foundry, photojournalism, Rena Effendi

Here it is. A sto­ry I shot dur­ing 4 days in Istanbul, city of dreams and visions, col­ors and spices, east and west. When Charles Dickens penned A Tale of Two Cities, he could have been writ­ing about London and Paris, or sim­ply about one Istanbul.

Special thanks go to Rena Effendi, whose kinder­garten­ing (!) and exact­ing vision helped mas­sage a sto­ry out of the hun­dreds of images I took, and to Zeynep, whose insight­ful and bit­ter­sweet rela­tion­ship with her city gave the sto­ry its form and tex­ture.

Note that this video is host­ed by Vimeo, which I chose because YouTube is banned in Turkey and I wouldn’t want my friends there to miss this.

Instructor Rena Effendi • Fixer Zeynep Guldiken • Foundry Photojournalism Workshop.