When you visit Istanbul you should set one day aside to visit the Princes’ Islands. About 20 kilometers away by ferry in the Sea of Marmara, lie this small group of islands also known as the Kızıl Adalar. These nine islands are very popular tourist spots in the summer.
During the Byzantine times, the [...]
This is one of the first photographs I took of the little boy of Istanbul. I added some words from the poem “In Search of the Little Boy of Istanbul“. Someone made it into a large poster for me with Photoshop. I love this photograph because it shows everything about the little [...]
With the launch of ImagineIstanbul.com as a blog in January, 2008, I think I should provide some technical, historical background the existence of ImagineIstanbul as a blog.
ImagineIstanbul.com was originally launched in 2004 and ran for about one year. Then, due to circumstances beyond my control (or maybe they were in my control), I lost [...]
The website and contest information for photographers is now ready at Les Arts Turcs and for that reason, I am re-posting my article and the details.
For the photographers among us, Les Arts Turcs is running a photography contest for all photographers. The contest is designed to encourage foreign photographers of all skill levels to [...]
“Along the Galata Bridge, men fish” is a line from the poem, In Search of the Little Boy of Istanbul, - which is exactly what they do. I don’t know if the tide is up or out, but they line up, shoulder to shoulder along the Galata bridge, thousands of fishing rods, connected [...]
One of my readers sent me a long, superbly written comment about this website on a posting about the Café Efsane. She believes that she too met the little boy of Istanbul. It our world that becomes smaller today. Truly knowing everyone is a matter of “Six Degrees of Separation”, I [...]
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