#97: Balat & Fener 1

4/27/2020

Rickety wooden buildings in an Istanbul suburb

Turkey, 2015 / Pentax K20D; Sigma 17-70mm; 1/100 sec; f6.3; ISO 100

Imago Diem

It's Latin for 'image of the day'. Randomly selected images from my eclectic archive. Depicting whatever from wherever until whenever since November 2019. This is a sister site to the more static telltaleimages.com

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Inspiration

Jim Mortram
To my mind, probably the finest documentary photographer
working in the UK today. Except he doesn't do this for a living; all the people whose lives he chronicles are known to him personally. Strikingly honest photography.

Bert Hardy
British documentary and news photographer who had a gift for capturing the gritty streets and no-frill lives of people living in the poorest districts of post-war Britain.

Ara Güler
The respected Armenian-Turkish documentary and portrait photographer, who denied photography was an art form, travelled the world photographing celebrities. But his monochrome images depicting the working class people of mid-20th century Istanbul are the images that stand out for me.

Jane Bown
British newspaper photographer who photographed many ordinary folk, but mainly famous people, especially those associated with the arts. For many years she used only a simple camera, an Olympus OM1, a standard 50mm lens and available light.