FAIR ISLAND OF A SUMMER'S SKY

Bringing together Yıldız Moran and Şahin Kaygun, two artists belonging to different generations and distinct ways of seeing within the history of photography in Turkey. Taking its title from the phrase found in the writings of Lord Byron, the exhibition brings into dialogue two artists who represent almost entirely different ways of seeing within the history of photography in Turkey.

In photographs taken on Büyükada in the early 1950s and presented for the first time at the Splendid Palace, Yıldız Moran observes people, everyday life, and the landscape with the attentiveness of a documentarian, yet records them with the sensibility of a poet.

Yıldız Moran, Untitled, Princes' Islands, Istanbul, 1954 - Courtesy of the artist and Galeri Nev.