The theme of the Super Bowl started to affect life in New Orleans weeks before the game. I was interested in the reaction of people and the city much more than the game itself. As soon as the game started, I took my camera and went to French Quarter to document this major event.

Until 1950′s there wasn’t any road to this valley and people had to climb across the Kaçkar Mountains in order to go to the closest city, Rize. It would take days to go, and days to come back. It is not hard to imagine that this place was not a junction for many travelers; travelers who were, in a sense, envoys of different cultures and traditions. This unique place has many endemic flowers and insects waiting to be discovered. But also because of it’s remoteness for hundreds of years, it also has been a cradle for an endemic culture and social structure. Traditions in Barhal Valley is quite different than the general social conventions of Turkey. Both its diverse wild life and its culture and traditions very well deserve to be protected.

But unfortunately, due to the lack of common sense and reason, Turkish government is about to build one of the largest dams in the world into this valley, which will eventually fill up a good portion of it with water.

Green

Tree

Peak

Army

Fly

Mardis Gras

Kohn

Noble

Broken

Hogget

Balance

Angelo

Outgrowth

Outside