CAROLYN DRAKE
"Time in Turkey - art place berlin selection - 25 Masters of Photography"
"I had seen only one live football match in Turkey during four years living there - a game against Liverpool at Besiktas - and it was my first game ever. I remember feeling smothered by the raging furor of the crowd. [...]
It turned out this was not an easy subject to shoot. The seats in the stands are so packed together that you can't, as a photographer, step between them to enter the sea of chanting. I was secretly thankful for this.[...]
I spent my last day of shooting in the amateur fields on the edges of the Bosphorus. It felt like beginning another story. The fiendishness and zealotry that surrounded the professional games was gone. This was a much needed escape from the cramped rooms and chaotic streets of an overbearing city, a chance to run in the wind, move your body, sweat, play, breath.[...]"
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A cooperation of 'art place berlin' with BERLIN PHOTO FESTIVAL 2013 - THE BROWSE and ZAMAN - 'Time in Turkey'