How Lonely Lies the City (Lamentations 1:1) continues themes explored in Your Word Lights My Path, shifting from the contemplative stillness of the snow-covered Taurus Mountains to the restless urban landscape of Istanbul.

Inspired in part by Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence and a visit to the museum in Çukurcuma, the series explores the tension between memory and modernity. Seeking traces of Pamuk's nostalgic Istanbul, the work moves through historic districts where the city's past is increasingly obscured by global commerce, high-rise development and digital infrastructure.

Photographed from the interior of a moving taxi, the images embrace motion blur, reflections and fragmentation, revealing a city suspended between remembrance and transformation.

Ultimately, How Lonely Lies the City reflects on the fragility of cultural memory and the search for continuity within a rapidly changing urban landscape.