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In Turkey I did a, I did a kind of a projection and a talking to
one of their newspaper groups. I mean at first they were very defensive.
They go, you know, "Why are you projecting Turkey like this?" And I'm going,
"Well, where do you live?"
And they all live in these blocks, and I'm going, "What do you think about these
blocks?" And then they started to think, ah, you know, yeah it's, you know.
Countries tend to get kind of very stereotyped in, in a very narrow way.
Because I think you, you get seduced by,
by the clichés in a way.
But there's more to Turkey than that.
I kind of like all this whole thing about urbanization and alienation.
Kind of almost like people don't belong,
in the environment that's been kind of created for them.
So many people are moving to the urban centers.
Vroom, everything's going up at
breakneck speed.
You start to very quickly disconnect from
community.
I mean the images are about kind of open debate about this way of living and
what that's going to lead to.
Turkish people seem to enjoy being together. They're very comfortable
being in groups. You'd look out the window and all the, the sort of more traditional women,
and they all come out at certain times of the year. They all wash their carpets
at the same time and they all do it together.
And, all that will kind of
start to disappear because you know who your neighbors are. Because if you're on the 16th floor and someone else
is, you know, on the second, you can't really
shout down to them.
In one sense, you know, the economics, you know with the modernization will make life easier. They'll
move away from doing very hard manual work.
And no-one really wants to do really hard
manual work if they can help it, you know. So,
you know there's going to be kind of improvements. But I'm not sure what, if it'll just, you know,
everyone starts to kind of, become a bit more, the same.