Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Cab-driving shutterbug chronicles Istanbul's underbelly - CNN.com

"Cab-driving shutterbug chronicles Istanbul's underbelly

By Ivan Watson and Yesim Comert
CNN

ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) -- Sevket Sahintas works the night shift driving his taxi around Istanbul, Turkey, from midnight until dawn.
Sevket Sahintas says he didn't know anything about photography when he began snapping photos.

His route takes him past symbols of wealth old and new: the ornate carved stone gates of a 19th-century Ottoman sultan's palace, the gleaming high-rises in the city's rapidly growing financial district."

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