Captured through the unerring lens of award-winning lensmaster Ara Güler, the “Eye of Istanbul”, this collection of photographs reflects the melancholic aesthetic of the city as it oscillates between tradition and modernity. The striking black-and-white photographs in this book are accompanied by a hitherto unpublished foreword by Orhan Pamuk, the first Turkish recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. In their youth, both writer and photographer aspired to be painters. Here, each maestro paints, in his own way, an evocative portrait of his hometown to capture its very soul.

Text: Ara Güler
Photography: Orhan Pamuk
ISBN: 978-981-4260-05-3