Joe Chre's arrival - Istanbul's underbelly

This is my first post on the High Society Krew blog,so...whaddup?You'll most likely be seeing more art from me and hearing some music from Zomik and I as well.Also, a lot of my posts won't be about me, for example...



Sevket Sahintas works the night shift driving his taxi around Istanbul, Turkey, from midnight until dawn.

His route takes him past symbols of wealth old and new: the ornate carved stone gates of a 19th-century Ottoman sultan's palace, the gleaming high-rises in the city's rapidly growing financial district.
Periodically, Sahintas stops his yellow cab not for customers, but for photos.


"I saw people on the street in winter. They were cold at night," he said. "To make their voices heard, I wanted to buy a camera and show that these people are living in difficult conditions. That's how it started."
Sahintas takes photos of homeless people, who often sleep barefoot in bus stops next to billboards where smiling models advertise everything from ice cream bars to
credit cards.







"I like to capture those contradictions," he said. "Happy smiling people on the ad boards beside that unhappy person who is trying to sleep. I want the happy people to see that minority and do something about it."

For more info and photography from Sahintas check here @ his official website.
http://sevketsahintas.com/