Good dog (SIGNED)

Yusuf Sevinçli
Good dog (SIGNED)

Photographs: Yusuf Sevinçli

Text: Fernando Pessoa

Publisher: Filigranes

80 pages

Pictures: 44

Year: 2012

Comments: Linen hardcover, 285 x 220 mm. First edition 2012. Black & white photographs. Text in english and in turkish. Just open for the signature.

'Yusuf Sevincli’s book Good Dog made as a tribute to the legendary Daido Moriyama’s 1971 image Stray Dog but it is also the locals' nickname for the neighborhood in Istanbul in which Sevincli lives. I love the scratched-up blown-out surface, the nearly dead cockroach, a punk's shredded tights and a fly on a super-grainy window. It has stark, raw images with an aesthetic shared by Anders Petersen. The book is darkly seductive - even the paper surface is sexy to the touch - and has a dark narrative, which really drew me into its spell. The images are disquieting and I share Sevincli’s fears and questions of the environment he is photographing.' — Cheryl Newman