We were at the celebration after the press conference, for release of İbrahim Karaoğlu’s book about artist İbrahim Örs book of artistic analysis on which they used one of my crap shots as portrait of the author. Everything was great until the guy began singing out some kind of folksong very loud…

Lots of figures from fine arts community and literary world, Hanefi Yeter

Ending the party with the starring.. he signed the book for me and noted down: I hope you make a photo of me someday, brother

Bad news is that these were the last shots I made with my beloved Pentax me Super, it’s broken now and way beyond repair. After a few weeks of Ebaying I found a clean Leica M6 coupled with a Cron 35mm. First shots, Tri-x at 800 developed with Ilfosol (very crap combo)

We discovered a nice tea-house near Çiğdem’s house

Pointless photo session with Umut, hosted by the Avid room

This is last time I use Ilfosol, that’s for sure

Tolga. Having telecined for the last 8 hours, he can’t open his eyes at light.

Pointless photo session with Umut again, this time hosted by the sound room. All 1/8th

Having ran out of chemicals, I had this roll developed and scanned at some photo store. I don’t understand how and why they produce sepia toned images from my Tri-x rolls every single time. I feel confused trying to desaturate BW shots.

Actually, I love the way these digital photo stores approach on BW film photography.

- Hi, do you have any kind of BW film?
- Take this Kodak Gold, just shoot and we can convert your photos to black and white.

Later on, I realized that this guy was the fairest. Some try to sell expired rolls for $10.

There is no doubt that the most enjoyable part is trying to print something with these guys. Taking the initiative, he tries to brighten the photo to reveal the face in silhouette, or cancels the print for a particular photo if he doesn’t like the composition, claiming that it’s a crap photo shot by mistake.

January 2008, Istanbul

With pleasure, Mr.

Ankara Has Run out of Water!