...Istanbul Daily is an attempt to transform the media of the newspaper, usually filled with information about tragedies, killings, economical and political turmoil into poetic homage about Istanbul and its citizens. The interest of the artist is put over the mixture of various populations in the city as big and diverse as Istanbul , with citizens coming from different and often juxtaposed cultural, religious and political backgrounds. Thus, the newspaper is a small monument for these people, an attempt to record the present time and the variety of the cultural and historical layers of the capital spread between the East and the West...

Elena Veljanovska