art

season’s greetings

Posted on December 26, 2010March 21, 2013 by Ethem

I have created this e-card for our workgroup. Wishing you a great holidays!

the thinker

Posted on November 15, 2010March 21, 2013 by Ethem

Debat-VUB-vs-toekomst — Debate-VUB-vs-future

Last Wednesday during lunch time I have recognized a familiar photo of the modern statue residing in the campus of VUB. The photo was printed on a flyer about the debate that was organized by the Student Council. They have decided to use my photo for the promotion of this important debate about the future of our university. So far so good but no one asked my permission about the usage of this photo. I share part of my photography in Flickr with certain licensing rights. Apparently they have taken it from there. When I communicate this matter to the Student Council, the VP Communication quickly replied to me and apologized for this matter. They have already placed a credits section to their blog.

Today I see even bigger posters of the debate on the walls and it is a nice feeling to see my photography!

By the way I did not have to do a big CSI-magic to recognize my photo. Although I have shot it by my Leica Minilux it was scanned unprofessionaly at the office thus there were characteristics marks.

lost in the shades of a sunday noon

Posted on November 12, 2010January 27, 2026 by Ethem

Made on a single cartridge of Super 8 film without any editing or post production. Premiered at straight 8‘s Sheffield Documentary Festival screening in 2010. Soundtrack is called “Comets on fire” composed by Kyriakos Spiliotopoulos.

Shot on a Braun Nizo s560
Filmstock: Kodak Vision3 200T
Processed & Telecine by SOHO lab

intermodal istanbul

Posted on October 12, 2010March 21, 2013 by Ethem

The Port of Haydarpaşa, also known as the Port of Haidar Pasha (Turkish: Haydarpaşa Limanı) is a general cargo seaport, ro-ro and container terminal, situated in Haydarpaşa, Istanbul at the southern entrance to the Bosphorus. The port is operated by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) and serves a hinterland which includes the country’s most industrialized areas.

It is the biggest container port in the Marmara Region and with an annual cargo volume exceeding six million metric tons (MT), is Turkey’s third biggest port after Mersin and Izmir.

The Haydarpaşa Terminal or Haydarpaşa Station (Turkish: Haydarpaşa Garı) is a major intercity rail station and transportation hub in İstanbul. It is the busiest rail terminal in Turkey and the Middle East and one of the busiest in Eastern Europe. The terminal also has connections to İETT bus and ferry service. The Moda Tramway is a few blocks south of the station. The station has a main building (opened in 1909) that houses the headquarters of District 1.

Haydarpaşa Terminal is the western terminus of the Istanbul-Ankara Main Line and was the western terminus of the former Baghdad Railway (İstanbul-Konya-Adana-Aleppo-Baghdad) and the Hedjaz Railway (İstanbul-Konya-Adana-Aleppo-Damascus-Amman-Medina). The tracks do not cross the Bosphorus, but there is a train ferry, that carries rail cars from Haydarpaşa, on the Asian side, to Sirkeci, on the European side.