Where Asia Meets Europe

Photographic objectivity is forced into doubt. The photographs were taken at a location that has the utmost significance: Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, where Asia meets Europe. Borders, displacement, immigration, belonging, longing, and location are attempted to be erased visually and hence the viewer is pushed into an uncertainty: whether or not to believe what the artist claims. The fog erases any possibility of identification. Hand-made connections of the two continents are visually challenged by nature, in a world where borders and displacement are ever-present, and further challenged by photographic objectivity. The sea opens in front of our eyes with different colors coming from the artificial lights of the bridges that bring the two continents together. Clear rules of transportation, exact definitions of citizenship are replaced by ambiguity, poetic flow, and visual uncertainty achieved temporarily by the natural superimposition of the fog on the landscape and captured through photographic image-making. Was supposed to be a bridge to humanity and love, but only managed to build up the highest walls; thanks to wall-makers.