A day out in Tophane... Tophane is one those neighborhoods that cannot resist change and gentrification. Yet, it is much more residential compared to Karaköy, thus still low key... and it is just a step away from the trendy Karaköy teeming...
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A treat at Kılıç Ali Paşa Hamam- a hamam by Sinan the architect.My reading list for summer: Again about  Istanbul... Zeynep Çelik's The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an  Ottoman City in the 19th Century.My Nişantaşı...
Clothes swapping is fast becoming a global movement promoting sustainable living over the last few years. Clothes swapping or "swishing" is an event, where people bring in their clothes and accessories they do not use any longer and exchange them for the new ones....
In the 1990s, a photo historian's discovery of Charles W. Cushman's archive revealed the '30s world in color, an era which we are very much used to seeing in black. It turned out that Cushman, an amateur photographer, was one of the early adopters of Kodak's...
 JUST MEMORIES...More than a decade ago, when the words "Galata" and "gentrification" were used in the same sentence, it did not mean much to me; I did not see it coming. There was not a single soul in the back streets, and it would give me a chill ...
 The photo exhibition at the Pera Museum, "From Konstantiniyye to Istanbul" gave me moments of awe and inspiration to keep on working on the city. The selection of photos from various collections  reveals the beauty of the Anatolian  shore...
Graffiti is no longer considered a kind of vandalism, at least in the art world, and the shift from typography to other forms of symbolic expression is clear in Istanbul, too. I came across these ones in a district, which is going through gentrification...