While scouting locations for his latest film, the award-winning Turkish film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan has photographed superb panoramic monochrome scenes all over Turkey during the past five years. These superb photographs were exhibited in international venues, and gleaned clamorous praise from critics and the public.
Ceylan's website offers us 70 panoramic images of exceptional quality and composition. The size of his images is 17x46 inches, and are of archival pigment ink on cotton rag paper. My favorite is the one above, entitled Baker Boy in Urfa. There are many others that I single out, such as Man in Mardin, Mothers & Daughters, Village in Cappadocia and Street in Birgi.
An excerpt from the Evening Standard in London: "Nuri Bilge Ceylan possesses an exceptional sense of composition, and often shot where an arcing road gives views in two directions: Curved Street in Winter, Istanbul, opening onto a hill framed with old houses, and Baker Boy in Urfa, posed between the receding arms of a cobbled alley."
Here's Nuri's website: Turkey: Cinemascope
