17/04/2026
We have opened the submissions for the 9th Edition of Online Photography Exhibitions with the theme THE WAY WE LIVE. From previous editions:
Featuring artist Maria Laura Strini
Participating in 8th Edition Online Photography Exhibition at Tatì Space Center with the Theme “Imaginary Cities”
Country: Italy
Title of Series: “Istanbul Layers“
Place: Istanbul
Description: Istanbul is the experience of a multitude of layers, sensations, people and traditions, shapes and colors, activities, goods, and natural elements, that meet, merge, run parallels, create geometries that overlap with those of the city. Istanbul is land, sea, then again land and sea together. The intent of this series is to convey the idea of Istanbul as a layered imaginary city. I took all the photos in Istanbul in April 2025, with a Fujifilm XT-20, using the double exposure technique. The description of each photo is an extract from the Invisible cities:
Title 1. Eminonu Square from the Galata bridge. “It is pointless to determine whether Zenobia is to be classified among the happy cities or among the unhappy ones. It is not into these two categories that it makes sense to divide the cities, but into two others: those that continue through the years and mutations to give their shape to desires and those in which desires either succeed in erasing the city or are erased from it.”
Title 2. Sultanahmet Mosque. ”Andria was built with such art that each of its streets runs following the orbit of a planet and the buildings and places of common life repeat the order of the constellation and the position of the brightest stars.”
Title 3. Sirkeci Station, Orient Express last stop. “Cities like dreams are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules absurd, perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals another.”
Title 4. Bosphorus ferry. ”Cities like dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamt, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus hiding either a desire or its reverse, a fear. Cities like dreams are built of desires and fears.”