We looked at İstanbul from Brooklyn with Tulya Madra, who transformed the city’s memory of colors, geometrical dreams, silent curves and poetry written on water into “porcelain”. Words:…

As we take pictures of director Mehmet Binay at the Şişhane exit in Tünel, we learn that his short trips there in his youth reflected the dream of reaching an utterly different place by…

Walking through the Ulus streets, amongst the people who seem to go back and forth in the bustle and pleasure of the day, we meet the accomplished pianist Cana Gürmen in her house to talk…

The early years of the painter and sculptor Mevlut Akyıldız spent in İstanbul has a big part in his humorous style of painting which portrays the contradictory life style of modernity. We…

Ayla Erduran is telling us about her life and Istanbul childhood, which she had to give up in order to become a world-famous violin virtuoso. Words: Sidni Karavil Images: Işık Kaya

The venues she has created echoed that era’s İstanbul spirit and introduced us the “hidden” streets. The source of inspiration for all of these is Lal Dedeoğlu’s very personal Istanbul…

Together with the writer and one of the most renowned people in the diplomacy and the business world Aaron Nommaz, we are dreaming of Istanbul, our eyes closed. Words: Ali Tufan Koç…