Video documentation: Persembe Pazari in Istanbul
Fatih PINAR is a fotojournalist from Istanbul and he is searching on the topic of neoliberal urban transformation in Istanbul.
“I believe that public sources should be used for enhancing the lives of the ones who need it instead of providing the rich with unearned income. This is also an attitude of claiming that the dominant powers are not the owners of the world. I am opposed to the idea of transforming living quarters into some artificial and dull places. Because the unique cultural heritage of a neighborhood should not be destroyed all at once in such a way.
My aim is standing up to the ones who take people’s living spaces away from them in a domineering way and try to create some new touristic and sterile ‘Disneyland’s. As a photojournalist, I try to show what a loss for us it will be. So the main function of the documantary is to create a movement against this injustice by recording this huge and fast transformation as much as possible.”
Fatih PINAR
Link to Video: http://www.fatihpinar.com/m_persembepazari.asp
Posted on January 19th, 2009 under Istanbul • Tags: Documentation. • 
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