Siena
from the Siena Cathedral, the most beautiful cathedral I’ve ever seen.
you can see more of it here.
Interiors Archive
The voice of beauty speaks softly, it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
F. Nietzsche
İnandır beni dünya
Yıllar geçti ve birşey kaybetmedim hayretimden
Herkes bir saat alsa da çoğalmaz zaman
Ve ben bazı şeyleri açıklayamam
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Mevlana İdris
Never Forget
This one is for Srebrenica.
The National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo.
1.5 million volumes and over 155,000 rare books were completely destroyed in 1992, during the Siege of Sarajevo.
Photographs are from a couple of years ago… There was an installation about the massacre at the Library in ruins; a timber boat full of old shoes and a portrait of him looking right into your eyes… And it was all very very quiet…
A room of…
“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is…at last, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away.”
Virginia Woolf
I knew I had to go there alone. While the rest were busy downstairs with the photo shooting, I went there, to the very top floor of this old building in Çukurcuma.
I feel lucky to have been able to photograph it’s beauty before it is renovated for a possible hotel, and I know I was lucky to have spent a couple of days in this building witnessing it’s last days as a ruin. I will share other photographs in the coming days, hope you like them…
That color of the old paint… Someone had to remember it…
