A great photograph is an experience. It is seeing the image and feeling in love, amazed, inspired. It is the perfect alignment of light, lines and perspective that opens a myriad of doors; time travel, instant travel, dreams and imagination, connection, memories, nostalgia and even liberation.

In January 2009 I went to Istanbul for the first time. I intended to come by boat from Odessa, inspired by the Byzantine history of trade routes.

The Luxembourg gardens in Paris belong to the Palais du Luxembourg, which houses the Senate.

Istanbul’s Galata bridge; Turkeys universe reduced to a single spot of a little less than 500 meters long and a little over 40 meters wide.