Taksim Calling by Frederick Lezmi
Depicting the protest of the Gezi Park movement at Taksim Square in Istanbul during May and June of 2013. The color photographs of the protest by Frederic Lezmi depict the tumultuous scenes of police and protesters, damaged property, graffiti, banners, camp sites, etc.
Lezmi's 100 Polaroid-size photographs of the protest are mixed with a 10 full-page archival photographs of the famous square, taken from postcard images. The chosen large format of loose oversized pages, similar to typical daily newspapers, should be understood as a critique of the Turkish newspapers who all but ignored the protests.
Moreover, this type of format, paginated with loose sheets, can be used as a poster for an exhibition and this was perhaps the purpose of Lezmi who gave most of the copies to the protesters and only 100 copies were reserved for the trade. In an unstapled newspaper form, he brought his small polaroids together with old postcards that he enlarged up to a A1 size. He collected hi Show More
