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Bakuvian street photography book | preview video
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Each of us has a place from memory. For someone, it is a sea vacation with their parents, an old apartment on the outskirts of the city, or maybe a park near the house where you collected snails. For me, such a place still exists in the real world.

A local pastry shop where there is a taste of a childhood in the form of freshly baked flower-shaped muffins. All the most important things have not changed; the place, the taste, partly even the assortment. The main thing is that the warmth still emanates.

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The local taxi driver was sitting in one of the passenger seats of his car that day, hiding under the scorching open sky. The usual story of a sunny city.

However, this person has remained an integral part of this street for several years now. His imperturbable responsibility, which allows to follow all the rules of the quarantine of a warm city, which is not yet completely accustomed to the new realities, delights. As, in fact, his dedication to his work.

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Residents of Baku know a lot of people doing their job and meeting on the way almost every day. We have known some of these people for years. We see them growing, we observe the way they are doing things differently or not, sometimes this is something that shows us growing.
One of the people I grew up with seems to be a second-hand bookseller at a local store. I have known him for many years, I saw him with a huge number of people playing chess, maybe I even thought about visiting his shop once. In any case, the reflection of our growth is here in this picture.

«Bakuvian Street Photography» project started as a series of photographs that I was shooting throughout the 2019-2020. After years of communication with foreign travelers and tourists visiting the city where I grew up, personally, for me, it was a way to observe citizens living, culture, and daily habits from my new point of view.
On the second stage I decided that the book will be right medium to share this experience to watch them as a film, the speed of viewing depends on the observation of the viewer. Each photograph collected in this book is filled with details. If you let your imagination run wild, then gliding across the frame creates the feeling of being in the place where the shot was taken and watching the actions of the citizens. Aditionally book sequenced by the context, shapes and colors. This is how they continue each other to make this visual journey even more absorbing. In the end there is an epilogue, stories of 12 photographs and a list of page numbers and their description such as street where it was taken or object name.
After finishing the sample book, the next step was a book exhibition, user experience and audience analysis, and a pre-order campaign to raise money to make copies. According to the results of observation, the book is interesting for foreigners who want to take a piece of the city, Bakuvians who take away a gift to foreign acquaintances and foreigners who first want to get acquainted with live, non-touristic Baku.

The book begins with a short text to allow the viewer to observe based on their visual reactions without giving prior direction. Then photography story begins from the city bay. On the most common route of travelers between Europe and Asia. Pilgrims way crosses the sea on ferry boats from one to the other side of the Caspian sea. At the end, for those who are not enough with more than 100 city scenes, there are text stories of selected frames and the epilogue by Medina Rzayeva.
In addition, working with archival photographs, I came to the conclusion that frame point addresses are necessary for future generations of viewers. After a while, the view of the streets changes and it is difficult to understand which part of the city is in the frame at the time of viewing.

Cover: Hardcover ImageWrap
Paper: Premium Lustre (148 gsm)
Pages: 121
Images: 104
Size: 25 x 20 cm (10 x 8 in)
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Pop up exhibition series in Baku, Azerbaijan:
- Author talk & Pop up exhibition @Baku Book Center / BSPF / 16.08.21
- Pop up exhibition @Baku Photography House / 20.08.2021
- Pop up exhibition @UCB / 25.08.2021
- Pop up exhibition @F3.7union Space / 06.09.2021
- Book sale @Bizimkiler, Handicraft / 16.12.2022
- Book sale @Bizimkiler, Oxford School / 23.12.2022
- Book sale @Garagesale, AltMad / 25.12.2022
- Book sale @Bizimkiler, Sharq Bazari / 30.12.2022

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