Istanbul, Photography, And Obscurity
When I come to Istanbul to teach Family Therapy I find that my urge to take photographs suddenly stops. I ask myself why do I devote so much time to photography in Marmaris? It’s not that photography becomes irrelevant in Istanbul, indeed it is here, (for today I am here), that I spend time and money in Sirkeci the photographic equipment Mecca of Turkey.
This time it was monopod equipment and lens filters from Cavidan Vatansever’s Manfroto Emporium, (ZDF www.zoomithalat.com). Ask for Ali and say that Stephen sent you!
Nor is it that I cease to write about photography, it’s simply that it seems when I mix concepts from Systems Theory and photography together my writing obscures focus and clarity.
As a consolation I offer you an addition to the collection of street mannequins displayed on pebblesfromparadise.com:
Mannequins In An Istanbul Suburb
October 12th, 2007 at 9:25 am
[...] dummies had changed their clothing since the last time I photographed them, but they are hardly worthy of the epithet ‘Street [...]