The Dreamspace between Istanbul and NYC

Since 2014, I've been swapping rolls of film with my dear friend, the writer and photographer Katie Nadworny in Istanbul. It's our way of combining our shared love of analog photography and letter-writing into a sort of visual dialogue. We each shoot a roll in our home city, then the other shoots it again half-way round the world. We use film photography to capture the visual textures and rhythms of our adopted cities, a dreamspace of memory and feeling. Our cities and our lives are so different, but these images exist in the between-spaces, in an ethereal plane where we've grown our friendship, where our dreams of Istanbul and New York overlap. The result is a poetic amalgamation of home.