Friday 27 July 2012

iSTANBUL

The city really lives up to its press release. It is an amazing place. Glenn joined us for the week. The highlight was a visit to a Dervish museum to see a ceremony. But really the sights, sounds, food and the people are all vying for the top spot.

SALT Contemporary Art and Design
Glenn and I in the Istanbul fun house 
G as the Vitruvian Man at the Great Masters exhibition
Looking up in Suleymaniye

Look! (Aga Sophia)


Dinner at Ciya Sofasi on the Asian side of the Bosphorus


Shoeshine stand
Goya exhibition at the Pera Museum was comprehensive. Here are some details of crowd from the suite of etchings "Tauromachia". Those of you who know me will know why these are here.




Window
Tile work in the Harem at Topkapi
In the Harem
Talismatic shirt, the Koran is written all over  this in an amazing pattern.
Boys horsing around on the Galata Bridge. 



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