Istanbul hüzün

•

When I travel I like to read a book by a local writer , preferably about my destination.
So before leaving to Istanbul I started reading the book , bearing the city's name , by the Turkish auther Orhan Pamuk.
I was deeply impressed .

Especially by the term Pamuk uses to describe the mood of Istanbul -

hüzün.

So I decided to try capturing it.
***
For the project I used black and white film, and also my iPhone via Instagram to take many extra pictures.

I concentrated on men waiting for the time to pass in barren tea and nargilla or shesh-besh parlors.

Of men going home in a dark street, of a city that was once grand , of women with dark looks , seagulls and amateur fisherman fishing on the beautiful bridge over the Golden Horn.