a book about urbanization
Live And Let Die
In the beginning of 2013, I stayed in Istanbul for one month. Soon after I arrived, I realized that there were almost no trees or green areas in the city. There were also hardly any birds. I started reflecting on urbanization, us covering our planet in concrete, excluding nature from our daily life, forgetting what the planet used to be like, getting used to our concrete surroundings, and accepting them without questioning.
‘Live And Let Die’ is a photography and poetry coffee table book. The photos tell the story about a city where nature has been pushed out, the words tell the story of a person that suffers from these sterile surroundings. The cover of the book was handmade with concrete binding and an iron spring – a physical experience of the heaviness of urbanization and the fragility of the nature and humans.
The book was exhibited during the Su Is / Water Work at the Siemens Sanat Art Gallery in Istanbul from March 9th until April 14th, 2013.
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