Highlights from Turkey’s annual international photography festival, which runs until 15 October
Foreground: Eugenio Recuenco. Background: Danielle van Zadelhoff. Photograph: Karin Andreasson/The GuardianFri 13 Oct 2023 08.00 CESTdefiantly breaks away from Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian politics and polarised society. In its sixth year, it is an outward-looking festival keen to project its young, vibrant and international character.
using augmented reality was repeatedly moved by the police because it was in a square where protesters gather.One artist smashing boundaries and subverting stereotypes is. He has created his own utopian world in the portrait series Mousganistan. This is a joyful place where Lamrabat plays with symbols of western capitalism and his Moroccan heritage to create thought-provoking images that are deceptively simple and full of humour.
Daniëlle van Zadelhoff uses the language of baroque painting to present enigmatic portraits of people whose gaze is often longing or tragic. There is something uncomfortable and uncanny about these subjects who are disconnected with time and place. She says she recognises that people who are suffering are often alone and she wants her photographs to communicate that desire for contact.
Made in Dublin by Eamonn Doyle, Niall Sweeney, David Donohoe and Kevin Barry. Photograph by Cihangir Karatas/212Made in Dublin may feel out of character with the rest of the festival but there is no theme to the programme, so it comes as a welcome opportunity to experience this extraordinary, symphonic portrait of a city. The piece has been lauded by Martin Parr as the best of street photography.