Orhan Pamuk the camera behaves as an

the camera behaves as an X-ray machine the objects glow in a grey void

taken by an anonymous member of the Xi’an Physical Education University’s department of Photography

Image credits: Steidl

This led to the idea to collage the images with Chinese photo albums that were produced in the same period and were widely used by members of the public to keep their memories alive

They focus on the trance people try to reach night after night

Orhan Pamuk the camera behaves as anIn the winter of 2011 Nobel Prize winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk took 8,500 color photographs from his balcony with its panoramic view of Istanbul, the entrance of the Bosphorus, the old town, the Asian and European sides of the city, the surrounding hills, and the distant islands and mountains. Sometimes he would leave his writing desk and follow the movements of the boats as they passed in front of his apartment and sailed far away. As Pamuk