In the village of Galata in old Istanbul on the north side of the Golden Horn stands the Galata Tower, a structure measuring 66.90 meters tall. It dominates the skyline of the city where one can view the Golden Horn, the Sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus.
Since early Greek and Roman times, a [...]
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 Café by the New Mosque was called the Café Efsane.
Whenever friends were going to Istanbul, I would ask if they would go and say hello to the waiters of the Café Efsane and maybe look for the little boy Yilmaz. Some of my friends took my photos with them to give to the [...]
So we took a taxi to Ortaköy to walk around the market by the edge of the Bosphorus.
When we got a taxi, Yilmaz was the perfect little gentleman. He treated me like a princess, opening the taxi door for me, gesturing like a fine gentleman that this was our taxi to Ortaköy [...]
And on the third day,
I found him.
He sat across from me at the table, gazing into the lense of my camera and into me. The camera becomes an invasive tool. I feel guilty. But in his eyes, I see Truth and purity.
It was at the end of a day of photographing the beauty of the city of Istanbul that I came upon a little boy of nine or ten years old shining shoes by the Mosque. He worked with the dexterity and skill of an old man. I had never seen a child work [...]
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