WRITTEN IN LIGHT§SHADOW

To walk a city is to read it like a text, written in light&shadow. Together, they shape not only what we see, but how we see. Light reveals streets, faces, and fleeting gestures; shadow conceals untold stories and unspoken dreams. I walk through Istanbul as if turning the pages of an endless book. Here, light speaks of movement, vitality, and encounter, while shadow evokes the weight of memory, solitude, and the perpetual tension between East and West. With a camera in hand, I search for fragments of this visual language. In each frame, a sentence; in each face, a word. I do not intervene—I only witness. The city tells its stories through light and shadow, and I simply read them. As Italo Calvino wrote: “Your gaze scans the streets as if they were written pages: the city says everything you must think, makes you repeat her discourse.”