View Finder No. 24
a desert market of florals and gold tassels photographed in the 1990s
Welcome back to View Finder an additional offering for paid subscribers of Journeys Beyond Borders where every other Monday I feature a single photograph, from somewhere between Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and explain why it matters.
This week’s image is by the great Turkish photographer Ergun Çağatay (1937-2018). You may remember I wrote about him in a longer newsletter after visiting his former studio in Istanbul and working on a book about his vast collection with the magazine Cornucopia.
Çağatay took many thousands of photographs but for this View Finder I’ve chosen this one, below, of women shopping for fabric but where are they and why am I showing it to you now?
Read on to find out…
(Before we get to it, a little push for the special aforementioned book which includes the photo above. There are currently discounted signed copies that you can order here)
