Greetings from Turkey
- Publisher
- Hartmann Books
- Year
- 2017
- ISBN
- 978-3-96070-013-5
- Specifications
- small booklet with 17 postcards folded from a single printed sheet in a cellophane sleeve. two cover colours (green and red) in the style of Turkish passports
11 x 13.6 cm
randomly distributed. First edition 800 copies
English text
Design by Nadine Engler and Norman Behrendt
Norman Behrendt (*1981), Berlin, has photographed since 2014 newly-built mosques in the sprawling suburbs of Ankara and Istanbul. Behrendt's documentary images make clear how the country is developing from Atatürk's secular state into a religious state of Erdoğan's stamp. The sacred architecture stands symbolically for the religious-political change of the last 20 years, in which almost a thousand of these mosques were built per year. This small, inventively produced postcard book shows a selection.