Renowned Magnum Photos photographer Harry Gruyaert brings together, for the first time, previously unexhibited photographs of Istanbul. Held by the City comprises images made during the artist’s visit to the city, shown here for the first time. With a finely tuned balance of light, shadow, crowd, and urban texture, Gruyaert reimagines Istanbul as a field of visual memory.

Since the 1970s, Gruyaert’s practice has been grounded in an intuitive relationship with color and light. Seeing geographies not merely as physical places but as layers of time, memory, and feeling, he turns here to the city’s inner rhythm.

The exhibition is accompanied by video works that explore the visual bonds the artist forms with different cities. Screened at specific times, these videos offer a complementary narrative that deepens Gruyaert’s distinctive way of looking at urban space.

Held by the City is an invitation to Istanbul’s unseen face—and a call to another way of seeing.