Istanbul

Ara Güler was born in 1928. In 1958, he became a photojournalist for Time Life, Paris Match, and Der Stern. After his meeting with Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1961, he joined the Magnum agency. In the same year, the English magazine Photography Annual named him one of the world’s seven best photographers. In 1962, he received the prestigious title of ‘Master of Leica,’ and in 1979, the first prize for reporting from the Turkish Journalists Association. In 1999, he was awarded the title of ‘Photographer of the Century’ in Turkey. Ara Güler is also known for having photographed numerous personalities such as Churchill, Chagall, Dalí, Picasso, Hitchcock…

Born in Istanbul in 1952, Orhan Pamuk grew up in a family of Francophiles. After studying architecture and journalism, he dedicated himself to writing. In 2006, his work was honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature. Orhan Pamuk’s novels depict the conflicts of a society torn between East and West. Awarded numerous prizes (including the Prix Médicis étranger, the New York Times Best Foreign Book Award, the Prix France-Culture, and the European Discovery Prize), his novels, selling more than seven million copies worldwide, have been translated into 58 languages. His latest works, such as “My Name is Red” (2001), “Snow” (2005), and “Istanbul: Memories and the City” (2007), published by Gallimard, have enjoyed both public and critical acclaim.