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Digging into emotion: a tour of 212 Photography Istanbul – photo essay

Highlights from Turkey’s annual international photography festival, which runs until 15 October

The art festival 212 Photography Istanbul defiantly breaks away from Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian politics and polarised society. In its sixth year, it is an outward-looking festival keen to project its young, vibrant and international character.

The programme is ambitious, with exhibitions and events that cross from the Asian to the European sides of the city. It takes visitors on a tour of a lesser-known but vibrant and burgeoning Istanbul. Exhibition spaces include a disused gasworks, a 15th-century cannonball factory, a Roman Catholic church and an old brewery. There is a playfulness in the curation: Annelie Vandendael’s photographs of swimmers float on water.

Mashallah with extra cheese, 2021, and Louis the clown, 2021, by Mous Lamrabat.

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