George Georgiou in Modern Turkey – Lens

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Through a series of haunting architectural and landscape scenes of Turkey’s rush toward modernization — and the resulting tension between the secular and the modern — George Georgiou has visually put his finger on a kind of listless alienation which at times can seem to pervade globalized society. Turkey, traditionally a bridge between East and West, seemed a logical choice for such a cautionary vision.

Link: George Georgiou in Modern Turkey – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com

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