As a boy of 8, Pari Dukovic would pick up his camera, a gift from his father, and explore his native Istanbul.
He learned to station himself on the street corners, hoping for just the right light to show off the city at its most shimmering.
He wore a jauntily striped T-shirt, his self-described uniform, which popped against the white seamless backdrop covering much of the floor-to-ceiling wall books of behind him.
Mr. Dukovic, 39, moved to the United States in the early 2000s to pursue an undergraduate degree in art history and photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
After graduation, he decamped for New York, fascinated by the city’s multiplicity of subcultures, which he documented as a freelance photographer in deliberately grainy images.
Persons:
Pari Dukovic, Mr, Dukovic, “
Organizations:
Rochester Institute of Technology
Locations:
Istanbul, Hudson Yards, Manhattan, United States, New York