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After Tunisia, came major city #63 Izmir, Turkey on the Major City project. I’ll be discontinuing this 33 photos series on the blog soon, but I’ll explain why along with exciting details on some new things I have planned in an upcoming post. For now, though, I’ll share a last few additions of this long-time series here on Shooter Files.
So here’s 33 photos from my time covering Izmir…
Izmir, Turkey came in as major city #63 on my Major City project and here I’ll share a few first impressions covering the city with my camera. Izmir hadn’t been on my list for the major city project, but due to travel arrangements and work, it was added last minute. I lived in Istanbul in 2015/2016, but hadn’t been back to Turkey since. Istanbul holds a special place for me, as not only my prior home, but also the first city on my project and still a top 3 city in the world for street photography, in my opinion. Istanbul has it all so I didn’t want to compare it to Izmir. While living in Istanbul, though, Izmir was the most common favorite Turkish city by the locals I met. They loved its reputation as the most open and liberal city in the country. When it comes to tourists, though, Izmir doesn’t get as much attention. So, visiting Turkey’s third largest city became an opportunity to find out about this city for myself, while also seeing how it is for street photography.
Here are my first impressions of Izmir, from my personal Street Photographer perspective…
Time for the New Year’s tradition here and share some photos from the old year to bring in the new.
While 2016 had been my busiest year yet on the road working on my 100 cities project, 2017 was even busier. I was on the road non-stop, clocking in at over 5,000 miles walked while covering 33 cities, including 26 major cities for the project. I started in city #41 Quito, Ecuador and finished in #66 Mexico City, Mexico, leaving 34 major cities left to do. I’m attempting to make 2018 even busier so I can get most of it finished before I start working on the book in 2019.
While focusing on the project, I was still able to make it to a few street photography festivals this year, including the London SP Festival as a judge and the Miami SP Festival as a guest artist speaker, which were great experiences. In addition, I led some successful workshops in London, Budapest and Havana, and plan on doing more in 2018. All in all, it was an extremely busy year with its share of downs and setbacks, but it’s only made me more determined to make this all work. The blog had a busy year growing too, as it’s now ranked #2 in the world in the street photography genre on feedspot. I have more plans for the blog this year, which I’ll share soon, but for now, thank you to everyone that’s been following along!
One thing I did decide this year was not to share all of my favorite photos yet, as I want the future book to be at least a third never seen work. Still, with such a busy year of street photography, walking an average of 15 miles/22km per day year-round, I have more than enough to share now too. So, here’s 50 photos from the year that take you through all 33 cities I photographed in 2017. It’s not a top 50 of my favorites, but some selections to share for now in bringing on 2018. So, I hope you enjoy.
Happy New Year to all and Cheers to 2018!
– Forrest
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