George Georgius, Londres (Reino Unido), 1961
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A continuación, el texto sobre el trabajo en inglés. En el siguiente enlace se puede acceder a la traducción del texto mediante el traductor de google. No es una maravilla pero puede ayudar a entender los conceptos fundamentales.
Fault lines:Turkey east west
Turkey is one of the most strategically important of nations - poised geographically and symbolically, between Europe and Asia. But the tensions at the heart of Turkey are becoming increasingly pronounced. A struggle is taking place between modernity and tradition, Islamism and secularism, democracy and repression, often in unlikely and contradictory combinations.
At the same time, Turkey is undergoing rapid change, landscapes, towns and cities are being reshaped, town centres, “beautified” and large apartment blocks are springing up in every town and city throughout Turkey. Often the architecture and infrastructure are from the same blueprint. Cities are beginning to become carbon copies of each other and the nature of community begins to change.
Georgiou’s photographs explore and question this concept of East/West and the many complex fault lines at play in contemporary Turkey.
Traveling across the country and focusing on everyday life and the dramatically altered rural landscape, the work captures the effects of this modernization and urbanization on Turkey's national and cultural psyche against a backdrop of raising nationalism and religion at a time when Turkey finds itself at a political crossroads, a crossroads that will define it's very future.
Running parallel to the local issues the work also addresses and questions more global issues of modernisation and urbanisation and the changing landscape.
At the same time, Turkey is undergoing rapid change, landscapes, towns and cities are being reshaped, town centres, “beautified” and large apartment blocks are springing up in every town and city throughout Turkey. Often the architecture and infrastructure are from the same blueprint. Cities are beginning to become carbon copies of each other and the nature of community begins to change.
Georgiou’s photographs explore and question this concept of East/West and the many complex fault lines at play in contemporary Turkey.
Traveling across the country and focusing on everyday life and the dramatically altered rural landscape, the work captures the effects of this modernization and urbanization on Turkey's national and cultural psyche against a backdrop of raising nationalism and religion at a time when Turkey finds itself at a political crossroads, a crossroads that will define it's very future.
Running parallel to the local issues the work also addresses and questions more global issues of modernisation and urbanisation and the changing landscape.
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