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  • Çinar Family of Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey, with all of their possessions outside their home. The photograph was made by Peter Menzel and patterned after his 1994 book, Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • Çinar family share a breakfast of tea, tomatoes, spiced meat, bread, feta cheese, olives, sugar, butter, and rose jam. The eat sitting on the floor of their living room in their small house in Golden Horn area, Istanbul, Turkey. Food, Meal..
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  • Çinar Family of Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey. At center, back is Sezgi Çinar, 30 and his wife Feriye, 28 (mother of Hasan, 8, foreground, and Saliç, 11, not in photo). In front of Feriye is her mother-in-law Safiye, 55. Safiye's parents, at left are Emine, 78, and Mehmet, 81. Safiye's husband Hasan, 60, is not in photo. Material World project.
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  • Safiye Çinar and her daughter-in-law Feriye prepare breakfast for their families in Feriye's downstairs apartment in the house they share in the Golden Horn (or Haliç) area of Istanbul, Turkey. They will serve tea, tomatoes, spiced meat, bread, feta cheese, olives, sugar, butter, and rose jam on a communal platter.
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  • Ermine Çinar, 78, a Muslim, prays five times a day (at home, on the floor of the bedroom where her husband is resting), Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey.
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  • Mehemet Çinar, 81, fingers his prayer beads and prays throughout the day, in addition to the required 5 times a day for the Muslim faithful. Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey. Muslim, Islam, Religion, Elderly.
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  • Her parents listen as Safiye Çinar talks about the origins of her extended family. Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey.
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  • Safiye Çinar, 55, hangs laundry outside her Golden Horn area home, Istanbul, Turkey.
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  • Safiye Çinar, 55, irons near the stove in her Golden Horn area home, Istanbul, Turkey in the background is the room where her parents Emine, 78, and Mehemet, 80 sleep.
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  • Mehemet Çinar, 81, photographed here with his wife Emine, 78, fingers his prayer beads and prays throughout the day, in addition to the required 5 times a day for the Muslim faithful. He is largely bed bound with lung ailments, but still smokes regularly. Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey.
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  • Chain-smoking Mehmet Çinar, 81, lights a cigarette in the small room he shares with his wife Emine, 78. He is bed ridden with lung-related maladies but says that smoking is not harmful. Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey.
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  • Bosphorus River, Istanbul, Turkey. The Ottoman mosque called Mecidiye Camii sits at the foot of the Bogazici bridge. Islam, Muslim, Architecture, Religion.
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  • Vegetables and fruit for sale at a shop in the Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey. The Golden Horn is Istanbul's harbor and shipbuilding center.
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  • Turkish flag on a ferry boat, on the Bosphorus River, Istanbul, Turkey.
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  • View of central Istanbul, and the Bosphorus River beyond. In the distance is the Galata Bridge over the Bosphorus, the strait between the Black and Aegean seas. Located on a narrow isthmus between two bodies of water, the Turkish city of Istanbul (formerly known as Constantinople and, before that, Byzantium) long dominated the trade between Europe and Asia. The Galata District in the foreground, a hub for both entertainment and finance, is on the European side of the Bosphorus, both geographically and culturally. Istanbul, Turkey. Muslim, Islam, Architecture...
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  • Tur.mw2.58.xs..Moon and mosque minarets of the Ottoman mosque called Mecidiye Camii, which sits at the foot of the Bogazici bridge. Istanbul, Turkey. Muslim, Islam, Architecture, Religion..
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  • The courtyard of the Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey.
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  • Restaurant's abound along the Bosphorus River near the ferry landing by the Ottoman mosque called Mecidiye Camii which sits at the foot of the Bogazici bridge. Istanbul, Turkey.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) The Çelik family in the main room of their three-room apartment in Istanbul, Turkey, with a week's worth of food. Mêhmêt Çelik, 40, stands between his wife Melahat, 33 (in black), and her mother, Habibe Fatma Kose, 51. Sitting on the couch are their children (back to front) Mêtin, 16, Semra, 15, and Aykut, 8. The Çelik family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 252).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey, the Çinar family gathers on the floor of their small living room to share their morning meal: feta cheese, olives, leftover chicken, bread, rose jam, and sweet, strong tea. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey, the Çinar family gathers on the floor of their small living room to share their morning meal: feta cheese, olives, leftover chicken, bread, rose jam, and sweet, strong tea. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 10).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey, the Çinar family gathers on the floor of their small living room to share their morning meal: feta cheese, olives, leftover chicken, bread, rose jam, and sweet, strong tea. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey, the Çinar family gathers in their living room. Left to right: Safiye Çinar, her mother Emine, and father Mehemet. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). At their home in Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey, Safiye Çinar strokes the fire for heat while her parents Emine (left) and Mehemet (lying on the bed in the other room) rest nearby. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) Feriye Çinar cleans up in the small kitchen of her family's home in the Golden Horn district of Istanbul, Turkey. She and her husband Sezgi moved here with his familiy from the Black Sea region of Turkey to make a better life for their family. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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