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Ordinary Crossings

Name: Ordinary Crossings: Istanbul 2023
Author: Odair Faléco

Istanbul 2023. A city, one ordinary moment at a time.

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Ordinary Crossings: Istanbul 2023 paperback by Odair Faléco

A city is made of moments nobody came to see.

For one month in 2023, Brazilian photographer Odair Faleco wandered through Istanbul with his camera, looking beyond the famous landmarks and postcard views. What caught his attention were the ordinary moments: fishermen waiting, people working, strangers resting, children playing, and the small, unexpected scenes that unfold when nobody is posing.

Coming from São Paulo, Faleco found something familiar in Istanbul's restless streets, irregular architecture, and everyday disorder. But he also discovered something different: the freedom to wander, slow down, and observe a city without rushing through it.

Ordinary Crossings is a 48-page, full-color street photography book capturing everyday life across Istanbul, Turkey. Through candid photographs, spontaneous encounters, and quiet observations, it offers a personal perspective on a city suspended between continents, cultures, and countless individual stories.

More than a travel photography collection, this independent photobook is an invitation to notice what we often overlook.

For lovers of street photography, documentary photography, and visual storytelling, Ordinary Crossings offers a different way of seeing Istanbul: one ordinary moment at a time.

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48 pages · Full color · Paperback

Open pages showing Istanbul streets and a ferry crossing

A fountain and a seagull photographed in Istanbul

Ordinary Crossings spread with everyday scenes in an Istanbul market

Ordinary Crossings spread with children in Istanbul streets

About The Author

Odair Faléco

Odair Faléco is a street photographer from São Paulo, based in Prague. His work explores the poetic tension between the ordinary and the unseen, using reflections, shadows, silence, and small gestures to turn public life into intimate visual fragments.

Over more than fifteen years, he has photographed across twenty countries, building an archive shaped by cities, absence, movement, and the fragile balance between chaos and order. São Paulo remains one of his central territories, a city he photographed closely during fourteen years of living there.

Alongside photography, Odair moves through writing, street art, music, UX design, and visual art. He contributed to the book “Windows of São Paulo” with Nara Rosetto, and continues to create independent projects that connect personal memory, urban space, and the quiet drama of everyday life.

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