Orhan Pamuk Center for Contemporary Photography

Center for Contemporary Photography

and solarized gelatin silver prints

depressing countryside and abandoned towns

At the heart of Book Building is the collaborative process that Dayanita Singh and Gerhard Steidl have established over 20 years

only the remnants of objects and traces of human beings would be found

Orhan Pamuk Center for Contemporary PhotographyIn the winter of 2011 Nobel Prize winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk took 8,500 color photographs from his balcony with its panoramic view of Istanbul, the entrance of the Bosphorus, the old town, the Asian and European sides of the city, the surrounding hills, and the distant islands and mountains. Sometimes he would leave his writing desk and follow the movements of the boats as they passed in front of his apartment and sailed far away. As Pamuk