Geometric
Development
In the 1990s, condominium
communities began
springing up like mushrooms
on the Bodrum peninsula. Vast
swaths of hillside were
covered with white sugar-cube
stucco structures meant to
lure the city-dwellers of Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir (not
to mention Hamburg, Munich
and Manchester) out of their
apartments and down to the
beach.
Many of these huge developments went bankrupt when
the real estate market softened,
but after the millennium many
recovered. Today most of the
building has been completed,
the bougainvillea has
spread, and the villas sold to
willing buyers.
Whether you like the ambitious
architectural designs or not,
as a photographer I find their visual
effects endlessly fascinating:
the shapes, the variation in
the midst of repetition, the
light and shadow caused by the
buildings' juxtaposition.
I've spent whole days doing
nothing but photographing Bodrum
condos. But then, like a baby,
I'm easily entertained.... |
