George Georgiou in Modern Turkey – Lens

George Georgiou in Modern Turkey

In haunting scenes of Turkey’s rush to modernization, George Georgiou captures a greater alienation, Adam Stoltman says.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/george-georgiou-in-turkey/

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.