Anastasiya Matveeva the first contester applied / 16 - 03 - 2010.
Istanbul Photo Contest 2010 Officially Started. Good luck to all photographers that will participate this year. / 15 - 03 - 2010
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Exhibition Opening in ATATURK AIRPORT - Photo Blog Thanks a lot to "TAV Group" that opens us their gallery in 2010 to our Istanbul Photo Contest. / 11 - 02 - 2010
Exhibition Opening in ATATURK AIRPORT - TAV.
Tomorrow on the 12th of February; Istanbul Photo Contest 2008 and 2009 photos will be exhibit in the departure lounge of the Ataturk Airport. The exhibition will be there until the 15th of March. We hope that everybody who are interested will come to the exhibition. / 11 - 02 - 2010
Thanks a lot for your supports about Istanbul Photo Contest 2009 GALA Night.
This year we gave Millienium Stone award to Turkish Famous Photographer Kadir Can for his Old Istanbul Photo Book and his lovely Istanbul Photos.
So many Expats,consulate representitives,Turkish and foreigner journalist, writers ,photo lovers, some Istanbul Photo Contest winners visitied our Gala.
Turkish Minister of Tourism & Culture Ertugrul Gunay visited second time our GALA Night. / 30 - 01 - 2010
We will start to make this year guest country and countries digital photos project.
We will show digitaly in Binbirdirek Cistern some selected photos by Istanbul Photo Contest lovers.This year is Russia Photo Year.
We will show some photos from Russian.Russian photos are about life ,culture,tourism,art from Russian Federations.We do this project with
www.turkishnews.ru web site stuff.If you have photos about Russian please let us know.(Subject;Russia Digital Photo Show Project) send us e-mail.
2011-Silkroad Countries Photo Year.(From Italy to China,Japon,India,New Zealand photos)
2012-Mediterrain Countries Photo Year.(From Maroc to Turkey )
2013 If you have any suggestion please let us know.We need your advices .! / 30 - 01 - 2010
We start to take Istanbul Photo Contest 2010 photos from 15 March 2010 until 1November 2010.
We will make again our 2010 GALA in Binbirdirek Cistern Sultanahmet-Istanbul. Thanks a lot Binbirdirek Cistern and DOM Tourism (Baran and Sertac Gures brothers) / 30 - 01 - 2010
Good news.
Our Istanbul Photo Contest 2009 Jury president Ersin Kalkan finished his book titled "The World Beneath Istanbul." We will give you some more info about book in next moths. Thanks Ersin Kalkan also for supporting us as a volunteer. / 29 - 01 - 2010
Istanbul Photo Contest 2009 Press and GALA photos are coming .
We will add them in our web site one by one.If you have photos about GALA please send us. / 29 - 01 - 2010
Here is Istanbul Photo Contest 2009 GALA NIGHT short video. / 29 - 01 - 2010
!! Wınner & Exhibition Photos !! !! Here are the list of the winners !!
Andrei İliescu
Bucharest - Romania
Andrej Virag
Beltinci - Slovenia
Boca Eolonore
Udinesse - Italy
Bruce Byers
Newyork - USA
Elena Senao
Istanbul - Turkey
Falk Hergt
Hainichen - Germany
Farkhat Khaybullin
Moscow-Rusain
Fugenio Novajra
Udinesse - Italy
Giota Giannousis
Serres - Greece
Ivana Miletic
Split - Croatia
Jim Vance
Kingston - Canada
Jutta Farnschlaeder - Real
Istanbul - Turkey
Laszlo Ilyes
San Francisco - USA
Lotte Schuitema
Berlin - Germany
Maja Argakijeva
Skopje - Makedonija
Manole Voroneanu
Usa
Mariska Verbeij
Den Haag - Netherlands
Michela Altomonte
Roma - Italy
Nicolas Glinoer
Brussels - Belgium
Roberta Van Biezen
Maasmelhelen - Belgium
Sara Piazza
Milano - Italy
Sergio Fernandez Gonznez
Madrid - Spain
Sibylle Lesay
Paris - France
Sotirios Sarmpezoudis
London - England
Tiago Magrini Rigo
Milano - Italy
Vincent Rok
Paris - France
Wong Wai-kei
Hong Kong - China
Zouhair Ghazzal
Chicago - USA
Zuzanna Filehicz Duszynska
Poznan - Poland
ISTANBUL PHOTO CONTEST 2009 WINNERS
For our 2009 contest; we received 1117 photos with 213 photographer from 40 countries. Italy has joined with 34 photographer. Following italy with 26 contester comes Russia and after that France with 20 contester. Thanks to all contesters and volunteers who supported our non profit - volunteer project in 2009. Istanbul Photo Contest Team will keep on the works with an extended vision in 2010 as well. / 01 -12 - 2009 http://www.istanbulphotocontest.com/winners.php
Photos of our jury meeting / 24 - 11 - 2009
Turkish and foreigner jury members voted for the winners & exhibition photos. We will inform the results next week on the press and on our web page. Please follow the results for the web page. Special thanks to all contesters - jury members - volunteer workers and 1001 Direk Cistern Team.
!! GALA EVENING - 13 DECEMBER 2009 !!
This year; in the gala evening; limited amount of guests will be invited due to the capacity of the service. The participants & their families are invited to the Gala. We have guest list. If you want to join the Gala; please let us know. Google Map adress !! Check out last year photos. http://www.istanbulphotocontest.com/photocontest_gala.php
Sayin Huseyin Bey'e 17 Kasim 2009 tarihli Star Gazetesinde yazdigi yazi icin tesekkur ederiz. Sehir Zaptiyesini seviyoruz. Thanks to Huseyin Emiroğlu for his article in Star Newspaper./ 18 -11 - 2009 http://www.stargazete.com/bolge/yazar/huseyin-emiroglu/sultanahmet
Istanbul Tango Festival Team will dance for us along with the Tango songs written about istanbul during our Gala Eve. In the Globe; after Argentina; the second large population about Tango Dance community is in Istanbul. So we hope that you will get pleasure with the dance of Istanbul Tango Festival Team. We also thank them for their solidarity to being part of Istanbul Photo Contest 2009. / 15 -11 - 2009
JURY MEETINGS & GALA ORGANISATIONS CONTINUE ! PLEASE FOLLOW US FROM THE BLOG PAGE ! / 13 -11 - 2009
ADMISSIONS ARE CLOSED ! GOOD LUCK TO ALL PARTICIPANTS ! Lets meet on the 2010 contest ! Next year the contest will continue and we will inform you through this web page. Thanks again for all participants & supporters. The volunteer project that we continue without any budget for the last 2 years became very succesfull with your supports. A sentence of our first contester of 2008 " Manfred Kraft " touched our feelings for 2009. The level you organize the contest is very professional. So have a lot of succes with it. it is good to know that are people in the world,which use their energy for the developement of art. These people are the designers of our future. So let us catch the light, let us hunt the shadows and let us make blind people seeing again... / 13 -11 - 2009
Last 2 Days for the Applications !!
Applications are closing tomorrow the12th of november at 00:00 Turkish Time.
/ 11 -11 - 2009
Due to the soo many phone - e-mail & personal visit requests; we are extending the deadline to the 12th of November. In the end of november; the results will be published on our web page and in Turkish press. 2009 Gala will be in the first 2 weeks of December. Our gala will be held in 1001 CISTERN in SULTANAHMET. If you want to participate in the Gala; please send us an e-mail. / 30 -10 - 2009
Good News !!
We finally found a sponsor to publish the book of 2008 - 2009 Istanbul Photo Contest winners. Thanks to Mr. Raif UK; owner of Anadolu Publishing. / 21 -10 - 2009
Dear Friends ;
We are receiving your envelopes. Please get in touch with us if you want to be sure that your envelope is delivered. Please double check the yahoo & hotmail accounts for spam mails. Gala waiting list has also started. Please write us if you want to participate.
/ 13 -10 - 2009
Interview with the founder of Istanbul Photo Contest. / 14 -09 - 2009 http://turk.internet.com ( One of the well known news web page in Turkey. )
Nurdoğan Şengüler : "Biz ileride İstanbul Photo Contest'i bir hafta süren geleneksel bir etkinliğe dönüştürmek istiyoruz. Bu çerçevede uzun vadede bölgede bir fotoğraf borsası oluşturmayı arzuluyoruz. Nihai hedefimiz, özellikle, turizm alanında tanıtım yapmak isteyen insanların, fotoğrafçıların entellektüel olarak para kazanabilecekleri, yeni mecra ve trendlerin belirleneceği bir merkez oluşturmak.
Thanks to Berna Şafoğlu for the lovely Header Picture that she took & give us to use it in our contest. For the Istanbul Photo Contest 2009 we are planning to exhibit one of her work about istanbul called " ATale of Istanbul ". You can also check her works with her friends from IFSAK & www.cekmeceler.com / 13 -09 - 2009
ACROSS THE CONTINENTS / ACROSS THE CENTURIES !
New Logo is ready !!! Thanks to Zulema Josa "The Winner of 2008" / 03 -09 - 2009
Turkish News.Ru became our new supporter. Thanks for their great efforts./ 03 -09 - 2009 http://www.turkishnews.ru/
Our 2nd Price Winner Maria Schnabl's family visited Istanbul to get his daughter's vacation award. Thanks for the visit. / 02 -09 - 2009
Tomislav Krnic from Zagrep,Croatia for his lovely help last year and this year.We added his links in our blog. Also there will be an upcoming project with him Zagrep-Istanbul-Zagrep for 2010. / 13 -08 - 2009 http://www.hrphotocontest.com http://www.balkanphotocontest.com/
Thanks to Tiago Forjazto for adding our Istanbul Photo Contest link in the one of the biggest portuguese portal where the 102 countries that portugeses connect. / 13 -08 - 2009 http://www.thestartracker.com
The First Mail Envelope has arrived from USA. Thanks to John S. / 05 -08 - 2009
Thanks to the friends for adding our contest to their blogs.
We are expecting your volunteer supports../ 05 -08 - 2009
http://www.facebook.com/marina.ryabova
First Application CD !!!
Our first contester Michelle "who visited Istanbul for the 15th. AIESEC ANATOLIAN CONGRESS brought her photos in a cd while she is on her way to the airport. This year we have the first applicant from Phillipines. Last year there were 37 Countries photographers submitted the contest. This year we expect other countires as well. Thanks for the supports. / 04 -08 - 2009
Web Master WANTED !!
In order to develop our web site; we need web developers for this page. Any volunteer help would be appreciated. In return how about a free short Istanbul trip. Please contact us./ 04 -08 - 2009
Special thanks to our supporters in blog pages like facebook & twitter etc. / 31 -07 - 2009
Frommer's Lynn Levine
On facebook friends added our Photo Contest to their links. You can also add & support us please. / 27 -07 - 2009
Yesterday we had attacks on our servers with 75.000 spam e-mails. Please send the e-mails that you sent again yesterday between 10:00 - 17:00 Turkish Time./ 27 -07 - 2009
The web pages below has recently added our contest 2009. You can also promote & let your friends know about istanbul photo contest 2009 on your internet sources. / 22 -07 - 2009
Culture Net Hr.
Organizacija 'Les Art Turcs' osmislila je ovaj natječaj kako bi ohrabrila strane fotografe da kroz objektiv izraze svoje viđenje turske metropole; povijesne i turističke lokacije Istanbula - njegove zidine, džamije, muzeji, kupališta, tržnice, fontane, ljudi, život na ulicama. Rok za prijavu na sudjelovanje u ovom projektu je 1. studenog 2009. / 22 -07 - 2009
Special Thanks to Everyone for the entries on yesterday with a record number of visitors.
/ 22 -07 - 2009
DEADLINE "1st OF NOVEMBER 2009" We are proud to announce that 2009 Istanbul Photo Contest has Started. Please Check the application page for sending the photos. / 19 -07 - 2009
Please check your bulk e-mail if you use Yahoo - mail.ru - yandex.ru etc..account additionally for the mails coming from istanbulphotocontest. / 19 -07 - 2009
Istanbul backstage Fashion Shoot - Photographer Patrizia Benincà
Special thanks to Patrizia Benincà for the interest she showed for the Istanbul Photo Contest 2009. You can see Patricia's works in the links down below. She did great photo shots for Istanbul Cemberlitas Turkish Bath./ 30 -04 - 2009
Istanbul Photo Contest 2008 exhibition can still be visited in 1001 Cisterns in Sultanahmet - ISTANBUL
Please ask for any information to the director of 1001 Cistern Sertac Bey. / 30 -04 - 2009 http://www.binbirdirek.com/
Last week we got a lot of visitors for IPC exhibition. Some guests came to our Art Gallery from Holland, Russia, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon asking for the 2009 applications. We are on the final stage of our work for the 2009 project. Concept will be istanbul again & the theme is free as the last time. Please check our page in the following weeks. / 30 -04 - 2009
We have started planning the concept of Istanbul Photo Contest 2009. We are receiving a lot of positive e-mails. We want to inform that projects are continuing and we are looking for volunteer people to participate in our project. We will write detailed information about this subject./ 08 - 01 - 2009
Blog Page of Elena Senao ; / 06 - 01 - 2009
El dia 23 de diciembre, en las 1001 cisternas ( Binbirdirek sarnici) de Estambul, se expone una selección de fotografías de Estambul entre las que estan las ganadoras del "Istanbul Photo Contest" organizado por Les Arts Turcs. Dos de mis fotografías se encuentran entre las seleccionadas para la exposición, asi que si alguien se encuentra en Estambul le recomiendo acercarse el dia de la gala de inauguración. http://elena-senao.blogspot.com/2008/12/istanbul-photo-contest.html
Through The Exhibition
Dear Friends;
We are on the final days of the istanbul photo contest 2008 exhibition. Our team has been working very hard to organise you a pleasant evening on the 23rd. of December in 1001 Cisterns. We would like to see all of you in our Gala. / 14 - 12 - 2008
40 Exhibition photos !!
We added the last 40 photos that will be exhibited in 1001 Direk Cisterns in 23 december at 19.00. We added a nice music to the pictures soo downloading the photos may take a while. Thanks again your supports. We are waiting you for the Gala (Gala Entrance is free ) / 04 - 12 - 2008 http://www.istanbulphotocontest.com/winners.php
Dear Friends ;
Thanks a lot for your e-mails & phone calls. We tried to answer you as quick as possible. To the contest we had totally had 950 pictures from 190 contesters - 37 countries. Thanks a lot for this great interest. Please keep following our blog page. / 01 - 12 - 2008
DEADLINE IS OVER !! / 20 - 11 - 2008
Dear Friend we closed the admissions. Good luck to all contesters. Please follow our web page for the news. - Istanbul Photo Contest Team.
Last Day For The Jury Election !! / 19 - 11 - 2008
20 - November 2008 DEADLINE !!! Due to more admission request; the deadline of the Istanbul Photo Contest has postponed 5 more days with the permission of Jury. / 10 - 11 - 2008
Photo Contest Gala & Exhibition in 1001 Cistern. Gala will be in the mid of decembersoo please check our web page for the exact date.
For More Photos Please Click.. / 05 - 11 - 2008
Dear Istanbul Photo Contest Lovers ;
The Deadline is approaching & we receive a lot of e-mails & applicationsalong with the CD's from you. Please check again that your did the application.
All The Best - Istanbul Photo Contest Team / 04 - 11 - 2008
Dear Contesters ;
We have received a lot of envelopes from you since now. If anyone curious about the arrivals; you can send us an e-mail to check ! 13 / 10 / 2008 info@istanbulphotocontest.com
Dear Photographers!
Thank you soo much for your interest soo far. We have received the envelopes that you sent. We have been keeping them in a certain folders.Because of the interest of Istanbul from the world; our contests grows day by day & we are soo proud of it. We have been waiting more of your photos. / 17 - 08 - 2008
Photo Contest Team.....
Our Spnosor If Sanat updated his web page & added our contest banner to his web page. Thanks for all thier helps. / 15 - 08 - 2008
Our art Angel Laura Lee Gulledge was in Istanbul with us for 2 weeks. Thanks for the nice article that she wrote about us & the contest. / 07 - 05 - 2008 LAURA LEE 'S BLOG page about her Turkiye journey & paintings.
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