I Had Spent 12 Years Shooting This Window Until Owners Demolished The Building – I Caught Its Final Moment
I live in Istanbul for 24 years. I’m a lawyer and a photographer. This was the window I used to see every day against my room, so only I was able to see it from this angle. Like I said, for 12 years, I saw it every day, we saw so many faces of each other.
During that time, I posted some of it’s pictures to the internet and in a way, it caught people’s attention. Publishers used two of them on book covers and one is showcased in an exhibition. One day, owners of the building decided to dismantle it, in order to build a new one. While the building was being dismantled, I managed to take a final picture.
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Share on FacebookWhen I read the title I thought: "12 years shooting a window, are you nuts?" However after looking at your pictures I retract my previous comment. I can see now how it is just not a window but much more than that. Beautiful pictures and great storytelling through these photographs, they moved me.
It's a window...stop crying!!!! bye bye little window....it's a freaking window!!! sniff....
Jay, don't get upset by all the downvotes. I heard you sobbing. Here, here, you're not alone *hugs Jay*
Load More Replies...You should have taken the window and make it a picture frame for one of your window photos. It would get a second life. Maybe it's still out there though. Sad.
That was actually beautiful... it had its own life and experiences then died, and now I am emotionally compromised because of a window.
there are so many abandoned buildings in Istanbul. They should have renovated instead demolition it. No one can claim those houses either way.Those who left can't return.
There's something about curtains in the breeze. Comfortable melancholy, if there is such a thing.
It's like looking into a sad and lonely soul who finally gives everything up. Quite melancholic in it's own sad way. Deep.
This is so perfectly wonderful! And that last pic looked straight out of a movie with destruction and chaos all around it.
Hahaha at first I thought that the last picture was a advertisement for clash of clans or something like that
Amazing...its like the window held on for as long as it could for the final picture. Great series with a powerdul ending.
you can spot on the first two pictures that there was a different curtain as well. BTW some curtains are lasting and will stay the same even for a lifetime – so what?
Load More Replies...i don't know why i feel like that , but in somehow it touched me so , u know , building have soul too , amazing story
He shlould have asked to keep the window frame when the were demolishing it.
In just a few slides, this window managed to get in to my heart and it made me feel like this window and I have been been together for years and seeing the window in its final moments made sob.
It seems that the last image happened so fast I am kind of blindsided. :(
But in these pictures it still lives. Unlike one too many unfortunate windows.
Just wait. An indie band or ambient electronic artist somewhere will use one of these photos for their next album cover.
When I read the title I thought: "12 years shooting a window, are you nuts?" However after looking at your pictures I retract my previous comment. I can see now how it is just not a window but much more than that. Beautiful pictures and great storytelling through these photographs, they moved me.
It's a window...stop crying!!!! bye bye little window....it's a freaking window!!! sniff....
Jay, don't get upset by all the downvotes. I heard you sobbing. Here, here, you're not alone *hugs Jay*
Load More Replies...You should have taken the window and make it a picture frame for one of your window photos. It would get a second life. Maybe it's still out there though. Sad.
That was actually beautiful... it had its own life and experiences then died, and now I am emotionally compromised because of a window.
there are so many abandoned buildings in Istanbul. They should have renovated instead demolition it. No one can claim those houses either way.Those who left can't return.
There's something about curtains in the breeze. Comfortable melancholy, if there is such a thing.
It's like looking into a sad and lonely soul who finally gives everything up. Quite melancholic in it's own sad way. Deep.
This is so perfectly wonderful! And that last pic looked straight out of a movie with destruction and chaos all around it.
Hahaha at first I thought that the last picture was a advertisement for clash of clans or something like that
Amazing...its like the window held on for as long as it could for the final picture. Great series with a powerdul ending.
you can spot on the first two pictures that there was a different curtain as well. BTW some curtains are lasting and will stay the same even for a lifetime – so what?
Load More Replies...i don't know why i feel like that , but in somehow it touched me so , u know , building have soul too , amazing story
He shlould have asked to keep the window frame when the were demolishing it.
In just a few slides, this window managed to get in to my heart and it made me feel like this window and I have been been together for years and seeing the window in its final moments made sob.
It seems that the last image happened so fast I am kind of blindsided. :(
But in these pictures it still lives. Unlike one too many unfortunate windows.
Just wait. An indie band or ambient electronic artist somewhere will use one of these photos for their next album cover.
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