graffiti

Considering the amount of plain concrete walls in Istanbul, there is very little graffiti or street art.  But there was a visiting German graffiti artist, known as "Kripoe" who has left his mark of yellow left handed fists around town, including in Tunel, ...

under the Galata Bridge, ...

and my favorite, the winged fist in Beyazit.  All locations are in hard to reach places, so one wonders how he was able to get to the spot to create his art.

I do not know the creators of the other work I have spotted, but here is a sampling, from Baltilimani, ...

from Anadolu Hisari, ...

from Tophane, ...

and a good number of pieces from Kadikoy.   "Fires" is stenciled under the image.

Some distinguished characters, ...

a dog flying upside down????, ...

and a stencil couple!

In my own district of Beykoz, countless cement trucks are hauling their raw material up this road and later barreling down the road in convoys to fetch more of their building powder.  Somewhere new canvasses are being built for the blossoming careers of Istanbul's grafitti artists.