Aya Sofia / Istanbul

– December 22, 2011

I am spending 3 days in Istanbul (Turkey) on my way back to Paris from Shanghai.
Yesterday I went to what has been for almost 1000 years the biggest church (and then mosquee) in the world. It is today a museum. It is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my short life !

One should (must?) go there in his lifetime.

Until you go there – as a waiting room – you can check some photos below.

Merry Christmas !

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About Eric Leleu

I have been living in China as a photographer for a few years. My brain is obsessed by concepts such as authority, consumerism, capitalism, geopolitics, sociology or urbanity... In a word, I am interested in our contemporaries (you and I) and the world as it becomes. My focus is the dynamics of public spaces: the interrelationship between the authority, the crowd and the individual. As for my eye, it is looking for colors and intensity. My dream is simple: having a few of my photos living longer than me...