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.