Photographer Charlotte Schmitz captured intimate portraits of life and love in the city's diverse Balat neighborhood.

With imposing Byzantine architecture, richly decorated Ottoman-era Topkapi Palace, majestic Islamic mosques with elegant minarets stretching up to the sky and the labyrinthine Grand Bazaar, Old ...

The winding streets of old Istanbul are an overlapping cacophony of seagulls, ship horns and vendors of colorful fresh fruit. Shady fig trees cluster near crumbling Byzantine walls and sweeping ...

The reconstruction of ancient buildings is often a difficult undertaking in a world where most ancient structures either no longer exist or have been heavily modified. However, a massive online ...

The winding streets of old Istanbul are an overlapping cacophony of seagulls, ship horns and vendors of colorful fresh fruit. Shady fig trees cluster near crumbling Byzantine walls and sweeping ...