{"id":65204,"date":"2013-02-12T15:35:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T13:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=65204"},"modified":"2023-04-06T13:56:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:56:51","slug":"turkeys-rapidly-changing-landscape-photographed-by-george-georgiou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/02\/12\/turkeys-rapidly-changing-landscape-photographed-by-george-georgiou\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s Rapidly Changing Landscape Photographed by George Georgiou"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1>Turkey\u2019s Rapidly Changing Landscape Photographed by George Georgiou<\/h1>\n<p>by Alison Zavos on <abbr title=\"2013-02-11\">February 11, 2013<\/abbr> \u00b7 0 comments<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GEORGE_GEORGIOU\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GEORGEGEORGIOU_10.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turkey is a strategically important nation, poised geographically and symbolically between Europe and Asia. But the tensions at the heart of Turkey are becoming increasingly severe. A struggle is taking place between modernity and tradition, secularism and Islamism, democracy and repression\u2014often in unlikely and contradictory combinations.<\/p>\n<p>My work seeks to address and question the concept of East and West and the process of modernization, urbanization, and national identity that is happening against a rising tide of nationalism and religion. I have chosen to represent the changes by focusing on the quiet everyday life that most people in Turkey experience.\u2014<em>George Georgiou<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>British photographer George Georgiou lived in Turkey for four and a half years, witnessing the rapid changes taking place in landscape, cities, town centers, housing, and infrastructure. He discovered that many Turkish cities were becoming carbon copies of each other. <em>Fault Lines: Turkey\/East\/West<\/em> opens at Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta on February 22, 2013.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GEORGE_GEORGIOU\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GEORGEGEORGIOU_1.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GEORGE_GEORGIOU\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GEORGEGEORGIOU_2.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GEORGE_GEORGIOU\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GEORGEGEORGIOU_9.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GEORGE_GEORGIOU\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GEORGEGEORGIOU_3.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GEORGE_GEORGIOU\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GEORGEGEORGIOU_5.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GEORGE_GEORGIOU\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GEORGEGEORGIOU_11.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GEORGE_GEORGIOU\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GEORGEGEORGIOU_12.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GEORGE_GEORGIOU\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GEORGEGEORGIOU_6.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GEORGE_GEORGIOU\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GEORGEGEORGIOU_7.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65209\" alt=\"GEORGEGEORGIOU_10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GEORGEGEORGIOU_10.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GEORGEGEORGIOU_10.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GEORGEGEORGIOU_10-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s Rapidly Changing Landscape Photographed by George Georgiou by Alison Zavos on February 11, 2013 \u00b7 0 comments Turkey is a strategically important nation, poised geographically and symbolically between Europe and Asia. But the tensions at the heart of Turkey are becoming increasingly severe. 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