"Hüzün"- my new album from Istanbul.

jbielikowski

jbielikowski

Jan Bielikowski
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Hello dear RFFers! I have a new "album" (right now it's only a pdf mockup) I'd like to share with you, pictures are selected from ten years worth of street photography in Istanbul, city I love and visited I think a dozen times.

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https://issuu.com/janbielikowski/docs/huzun2022
 
Very nice work. I enjoyed your photographs very much! Thank you for sharing.
 
Fabulous portfolio. I envy your journeys there, and admire the steady application of following your own footsteps and seeing into the lives that present themselves for a moment.

It is possible that an antithetical project will arise from all this attention to hüzün—the desire to find and see and depict joy, merriment, cheer, mirth, ecstasy. I’m thinking of the pair of odes by John Milton, il Penseroso and l’Allegro. But also of what the Tao shows about opposites interacting with each other.
 
When it comes to street photography I’m a people person. I like how you get in close and show the people's faces. For me it’s the face that tells the story and you accomplished that.

Outstanding and well done. Thank you for sharing your project with us.

All the best,
Mike
 
Great, Jan! Really great shots!

Istanbul is a very photogenic town.

I've been in Istanbul quite often until 1990. In those years I worked with the half frame Olympus Pen F. When I find the time, I'll make some prints of those pictures. Half frame printing is however not easy. That's why I kept putting it off until now.

This one is on full frame, not Istanbul, but Edirne.

gelatin silver print (summilux 50mm f1.4 v2) leica m3

Erik.

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I'm really happy to see such a positive feedback, I appreciate it very much, thank you gentlemen!

Robert, I guess we all try to embrace for "bad times" to come, also I think it's more of a Stoic Way than negative thinking.
Erik, yes I remember clearly your pictures form Pen F thread, and I'm quite jealous you've seen Istanbul before I was even born, back when it was more "Ottoman".
 
rhl-oregon said:
Fabulous portfolio. I envy your journeys there, and admire the steady application of following your own footsteps and seeing into the lives that present themselves for a moment.

It is possible that an antithetical project will arise from all this attention to hüzün—the desire to find and see and depict joy, merriment, cheer, mirth, ecstasy. I’m thinking of the pair of odes by John Milton, il Penseroso and l’Allegro. But also of what the Tao shows about opposites interacting with each other.
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“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”


― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
 
Congratulations Jan on a very well crafted book. I really enjoyed the images and the way you've put them together.
Warmest regards,
Lynn
Sydney
 
Wonderful, Jan. Love the concept, design, and photos. I'm a firm believer in the Sufi notion that all loss is spiritual loss born of separation.

John
 
I'm a little late but really wanted to watch it on my computer'r monitor and not on the small iphone display.
And it was the good choice, yours is an excellent body of work with much humanity in it. I like your style to frame and the quality of your B&W.
And the way you sequenced the pictures makes it interesting. Among the others I really liked the photo with the small trucks (pag. 28) and the one with the dogs (pag. 78).
Well done, bravo. it really deserves to be printed...
 
I read every comment with attention and joy, also I'm very happy to see more pictures from Istanbul.
Here are a few that got rejected in the process but I still like:

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thanks again!
 
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