Fotoistanbul photography festival to start

Bringing together more than 50 photographers from Turkey and all around the world, the Fotoistanbul Beşiktaş International Photography Festival will meet photography lovers for the fourth time on Sept. 30. 

The art of photography will be celebrated with numerous exhibitions and side events including panels, roundtable discussions, master talks, portfolio reviews and book signings. 

The event will last until Oct. 22. 

Stripping photography from walls, rules and categories and taking it out to the streets, displaying in a form that allows everyone to construct coincidental relationships with it, bringing together all disciplines and styles and joining the classic and contemporary; the pupil and the master, Fotoistanbul hosted 238 artists from Turkey and all around the world in its first three years. 

The festival has presented more than 273 side events, hundreds of portfolio reviews and 160 exhibitions including the works of world-renowned photography artists like William Klein, Josef Koudelka, Anders Petersen, Stanley Greene, Atta Kim, Ara Güler, Nick Brandt, Antoine D'agata, Sandro Miller, Ruud van Empel and Andre Kertesz.

This year's locations are mainly the squares and streets of Beşiktaş, as well as the Ortaköy Orphanage, many cultural centers and also galleries including Artgalerim, Mixer, Fotoğraf Evi, Istanbul Fotoğraf Galerisi, O'Art, Gama and Fototrek.

This year's festival will exhibit the works of world famous photographers such as Omar Victor Diop, Michael Kenna, best known for his black and white landscape photography "Dancing Photographer," Youngho Kang,

Alejandro Chaskielberg, Alex Timmermans, Eddo Hartman, Serge Najjar, Gyula Soproyni and many other photographers from all around the world. ...