Balat is in the old city on the European side of Istanbul. Historically, it was the center of the Jewish community in Istanbul. While much of Istanbul has been gentrified, its population remains linked to Turkey's Ottoman past.
This image shows a family at the door of their house, waiting for someone on a spring Sunday.
Ximena Echagüe is a Belgian-Argentine Documentary & Street Photographer, Juror & Curator based in Brussels.
Ximena’s work has been exhibited worldwide in four individual exhibitions (including at the European Parliament, Brussels and the United Nations, New York) and over 70 Group exhibitions. She has been published by New York Times, BBC News, Washington Post, and many photography magazines.
In 2023 she launched her first book "Trapped", Troubled souls in eerie times, published by Daylight Books, with a foreword by David Campany.
