Transanatolia

TRANSANATOLIA is a pilgrimage to the far reaches of Anatolia. For 5 years, Mathias Depardon photographs the new Türkiye, right up to the edge of the Caucasus. Newly established urban areas in western Istanbul, Kurdistan Turkish where the civil revolution is brewing and a real water war is raging: it questions the notion of peripheries and borders. These remote places help to understand the major changes that are shaking up the region. Through portraits, landscapes, Mathias Depardon explores a country torn between modernization at all costs horsehair and Ottoman reminiscence. In this book the photographer tries to depict the Frontiers of the Heart Evoked by the Turkish President. To Probe the “Turkish Soul” and to perceive the full complexity of its identity construction, it is necessary to project to its borders and even beyond. In Azerbaijan or Crimea, the Türkiye remains the "motherland". It shines, spreads its "soft power" Balkans to Asia, from the Black Sea to the Red Sea.