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ROB FUNCKEN Rob Funcken was born in 1989, Tilburg, The Neth-
the renowned University College of Arts Sint Lukas
erlands. After being graduated as a graphic designer
in Brussels, Belgium. The multicultural european cap-
in 2009 he went on a world trip. For 10 months he
ital and his travels have been an inspiration for his
traveled, photographed and worked in Australia and
work ever since.
South-East Asia.
After his graduation from Sint Lukas he returned
Overwhelmed by this cultural adventure he returned
back to The Netherlands where he is further persuing
back to Europe. He began studying photography at
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ut that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to
know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”
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“The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”• Christopher McCandless
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k Sea the ara Sea
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“Between Two Seas” is a four-day
to the 3rd Bosphorus Bridge, exca-
walking route in the near west of
vation dump sites, industrial sites
Istanbul, between the Black Sea and
and housing areas, and also sites of
the Marmara Sea, which allows one
cultural and historical significance
to experience the threatening trans-
such as the Yarımburgaz Cave, which
formation of Istanbul on foot. The to-
is the oldest settlement in Istanbul,
tal length of the trail is 60 kilometres.
and inner-city vegetable gardens.
Layer by layer, the route progresses
“Between two seas” is both a propos-
from the outermost periphery of the
al and an invitation. It is an action
city to its centre. It passes through
that consecrates the rhythm of walk-
rural and forest areas, and water ba-
ing which opens the soul to perceive
sins to reach the centre of the city.
the world. And this action is per-
The trajectory passes through lig-
haps the most auspicious ‘project’
nite mines, the area earmarked for
that will open a ‘passage’ between
the new airport, the road leading
the Black Sea and the Marmara Sea.
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hy do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can
see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
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