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STEVE MCCURRY - THE HAUNTED EYE

STEVE MCCURRY - THE HAUNTED EYE

MSGSU Tophane-ı Amire Culture and Art Center

MSGSU Tophane-ı Amire Culture and Art Center

Nov 30, 2025

Nov 30, 2025

One of contemporary photography’s most compelling figures, Steve McCurry brings the world premiere of his exhibition The Haunted Eye to Istanbul. The show gathers nearly 200 works spanning McCurry’s prolific 50-year career. Featuring both iconic images and never-before-seen photographs, this comprehensive selection is one of the artist’s largest exhibitions to date.

Steve McCurry, Young Tibetan Nomad, Tibet, 2001

CHRISTOPHER HERWIG - SOVIET BUS STOPS

CHRISTOPHER HERWIG - SOVIET BUS STOPS

TAKSİM ART

TAKSİM ART

Oct 26, 2025

Oct 26, 2025

Oct 26, 2025

Spanning 13 countries, 30,000 kilometres, and over 750 bus stops, Soviet Bus Stops is the result of an eleven-year archival journey by Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig. These unusual structures, built  across the Soviet Union during the 1960s and '70s, carry traces of individual creativity under a centralised system. Herwig’s lens captures these stops as quiet yet powerful interventions by local architects, craftsmen, and unnamed designers.

TAMERA / Fashion Photography

TAMERA / Fashion Photography

AKARETLER NO:41-43

AKARETLER NO:41-43

Oct 31, 2025

Oct 31, 2025

Oct 31, 2025

For the first time, TAMERA/Fashion Photography unveils the complete arc of Tamer Yılmaz's visionary work, tracing three decades from the 1990s to today. Far more than a retrospective, this exhibition reveals an artist who didn't simply document Turkey's fashion photography evolution—he actively sculpted it, leaving his fingerprints on every transformation.

ALLICE PALLOT - ALGUES MAUDITES

ALLICE PALLOT - ALGUES MAUDITES

INSTITUT FRANÇAİS TÜRKİYE

INSTITUT FRANÇAİS TÜRKİYE

Oct 25, 2025

Oct 25, 2025

Oct 25, 2025

Alice Pallot transforms scientific data into a visual language, turning ecological crisis into an aesthetic confrontation. In her project Algues Maudites (Cursed Algae), she presents the toxic green algae invasion spreading along the Brittany coast through a three-part photographic narrative.

FRANK OCKENFELS 3 - THE VOICES BEHIND THE FACES

FRANK OCKENFELS 3 - THE VOICES BEHIND THE FACES

MUSEUM GAZHANE

MUSEUM GAZHANE

October 22, 2025

October 22, 2025

October 22, 2025

Smudges, scratches, crumpled surfaces, faces dissolving into ink stains... This is where the collaborative universe of Frank Ockenfels 3 and David Bowie emerges. Images manipulated by the photographer merge with the artist’s ever-shifting identities, revealing an unexpected aesthetic dialogue. Blurred outlines, indistinct portraits, and photographs marked with fingerprints subvert traditional notions of purity and visual sterility.

Frank Ockenfels 3 - The Voices Behind The Faces

A Suspended Tomorrow

A Suspended Tomorrow

YAPI KREDİ BOMONTİADA GALLERY

YAPI KREDİ BOMONTİADA GALLERY

Nov 16, 2025

Nov 16, 2025

Nov 16, 2025

A Suspended Tomorrow transforms the theatrical essence of Erwin Olaf’s photographs into a physical experience, staging a choreography of silence and anticipation. Moving through works from series such as April Fool, Ladies Hats, Dance in Close-Up, Still Lifes, Hope, Life – For Mom, Im Wald and Waiting, visitors become active witnesses rather than passive observers

April Fool, Erwin Olaf

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Ali Paşa Değirmeni Sok. No:16 Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Türkiye

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STAY INFORMED ON THE 2025 FESTIVAL PROGRAM!

With is international program, 212 Photography Istanbul is a city festival with its large scale of participants that expands horizons and encourages the culture and art audience to navigate different routes in Istanbul.

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Kemankeş Karamustafa Paşa Mah.

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