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“The Eye of Istanbul”, a documentary about prominent Armenian-Turkish photojournalist Ara Guler nicknamed “The Eye of Istanbul”, will be screened at the Washington Film Festival in March 2016, Ermenihaber.am reported. 

The film is a retrospective of the photographer’s life and creative career. It also tells the viewer about how Guler prepares for an exhibition and selects works, and presents his reflections on the fate of his archives. 

Ara Guler was born in 1928 in Istanbul. In the 1960s, Güler's photographs were used to illustrate books by notable authors and were displayed at various exhibitions throughout the world. His works were exhibited in 1968 in 10 Masters of Color Photography at the New York Museum of Modern Art and at Photokina Fair in Cologne, Germany.I n the 1970s he held photographic interviews[ with politicians and artists such as Winston Churchill, Indira Gandhi, Maria Callas, John Berger, Bertrand Russell, Willy Brandt, Alfred Hitchcock, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso. Some critics consider his most renowned photographs to be his melancholic black-and-white pictures taken mostly with a Leica camera in Istanbul, mainly in the 1950s and 1960s, a golden age of photojournalism.