Istanbul'um

A photographic declaration of love

Since his childhood, photographer Feyzi Demirel's paths have crossed the Turkish metropolis on an annual basis. Although the city has been growing and changing for centuries, it has lost none of its splendor and grace.

But this rapid development pushed the photographer to capture their present in pictures so that more than just faint memories of Istanbul remain. His work focuses on two perspectives: on the one hand, on the everyday hustle and bustle - the life of the city dwellers, on the other hand, on the search for the peculiarities of a beauty. For the most part, several trips in 2015 formed the basis for “Istanbul'um”, a photographic declaration of love to the magical city on the Bosphorus.