25 Photographers Capture Turkey for Newspaper Project

A Whirling Document of Turkish Culture

A Turkish newspaper assigned 25 international photographers to create a huge photographic document of Turkey.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/a-whirling-document-of-turkish-culture/

In honor of its 25th year, the newspaper assigned 25 well-known photographers to a huge photographic project, “Time in Turkey.” The undertaking — partly inspired by the name Zaman, which means “time” — was  to create a document of a culture that is often misinterpreted. Selahattin Sevi, the paper’s photo editor, said the project was meant to avoid an orientalist viewpoint.