Rüya, a photo from Istanbul, Marmara

Photographer's Note

this one is for Rüya, who is always never there...

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Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book

In Istanbul, a lawyer called Galip comes home from work to find his beloved wife Rüya missing. She has taken no suitcases, and she has left a brief note that doesn’t say where she’s gone or why. Galip thinks Rüya must be with Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist who because has disappeared too. Thus begins an extravagantly playful tale that is both a murder mystery and an absorbing journey through Istanbul’s fabled past and its troubled present. In its mind-bending exploration of identity and meaning, memory and love, The Black Book brings to mind the unforgettable urban odysseys of Joyce and Proust.

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Well, Istanbul is one of my favourite cities...

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analogue print scan, framed

ribeiroantonio, patshoo, rigoletto, doubay, broglia, nicol_g, hmusty has marked this note useful

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Morac (27725) 2008-06-20 6:45

Bonjour Benny,

Cette photo est d'une très belle composition entre ses différents plans successifs, la mosquée, l'homme à la cigarette …
J'aime ces photos de vie dans les villes.
Tu dis qu'Istambul est une de tes villes favorites.
Pour moi c'est un rêve depuis toujours que j'espère réaliser maintenant assez rapidement au plus tard en 2009
Amicalement
Marc

wolf38 (30) 2008-06-20 8:28

Hello Benny. The alive photo pleases me very well. Above all the man with the cigarette is the central picture element. Very beautifully. Best regards, Wolfgang.

patshoo (952) 2008-06-20 9:23

Attractive street scene,Many more story told by each people you look at,Background by impressive architecture that show many and many more story from the past.Good work,TFS.

scalerman (26900) 2008-06-20 9:36

Classic Istanbul: I wouldn't change a thing in this classic tableau. c

MEHMETALI (161) 2008-06-20 15:24

Hello Benny,
İts interestin photos. Good pov. thank you.

rigoletto (34279) 2008-06-20 15:43

You were in Turkey?
Istanbul is one of your favourite cities?

Then, i have to ask, when are you coming back?
Those mosques, busses, crowd, smokers, carts... all are waiting here, you know :)

And thank you for the great note, with the plot of a novel by our only Nobel Prize winner, Orhan Pamuk.

All the best, Benny...
Deniz

ribeiroantonio (22730) 2008-06-21 4:48

Your note shows a great story behind an excellent picture. I really like the way anonymous people is placed in the frame with a main character in the foreground. Well done.
Antonio

doubay (674) 2008-06-22 17:43

It’s great how you integrated that guy lighting his cigarette into your compo. Just a fantastic daily life shot form fascinating Istanbul.
Cheers
Andreas

fkokol (1636) 2008-06-25 6:34

Great compoisiton you captured. Wonderful daily life photo from istanbul. your note really suits this shot.
greetings,

figen

daddo (28748) 2008-07-09 20:42

Hi Benny. I love Istanbul as well. Who cannot fall in love with such a friendly and culturally rich city? You have caught the mood of the city so well here with the rush of a metropolis, but also with its ancient side, its street vendors, its traffic and the folks who just sit (or stand) and look, like the fellow on the right with hands behind his back. Great shot. regards. Klaudio.

kensimage (8563) 2008-09-06 23:19

I've never been to Turkey, Benny, but this photo somehow seems very Turkish to me. The mixture of middle eastern architecture (and smoking habits) with western things like suit jackets and tour buses just seems natural there. Very nice composition, particularly the placement of the smoker and the food cart in the frame. Regards, Ken.

broglia (3604) 2008-10-12 4:13

Hi Benny, excellent gallery and I especially like this one. It works so well with the note - and Pamuk is one of my favourite authors. The main character is well placed leaving the rest of the frame to be filled by the mosque and the vendors cart, a nice little triangle of elements.

Excellent, Roberto

nicol_g (859) 2008-11-05 12:22

Love the atmosphere of this picture (my favorite from your interesting gallery); one of the very rare cases where white sky (and I'm speaking of color pictures!) works for the benefit of the scene. In fact it's the 'washed' look of the (few) colors that I like so much here and that gives that particular feel to the photo.
The mosques, the busy people walking here and there, the fg character lighting his cigarette (his look) + your note = just wonderfully told/illustrated the story. Really good work, Benny!
Thank you.

greg (2835) 2009-02-19 8:53

This is a nice one - I like the partly subdued colours from the film