Istanbul'um

A photographic declaration of love

Since he was a child, photographer Feyzi Demirel's paths have crossed the Turkish metropolis on an annual basis. Though the city has grown and changed for centuries, it has lost none of its grandeur 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 beauty. For the most part, a number of trips in 2015 form the basis for "Istanbul'um", a photographic declaration of love to the magical city on the Bosphorus.