De Courtois Sébastien

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Une traversée photographique d’Istanbul loin des clichés touristiques, mettant en lumière des instants de complicité et de tendresse entre les Stambouliotes afin de témoigner de la possible cohabitation entre tradition et modernité, religion et laïcité.

“It was sometime in November of 2019 that I arrived in Istanbul to do an artist residency. I was still jet-lagged from an exhausting return from Hawaii where I had gone to work with a screenplay consultant.

With lodging provided in beautiful Kadikoy and meals taken care of, I had a month ahead of me to do as I pleased, so I beckoned the creative desire within, “Come on…wake up! Tell me what to photograph!” I had more or less stopped doing street photography for several years at that point.” -Jehsong Baak