“There is such vibrant energy in Istanbul, regardless of the political climate,” the photographer Devin Yalkin said. His parents met in Nisantasi, a district on the European side. They lived across the street from each other, and when they were in their mid-20s, his father asked his mother out on a date through the window of their apartments. Ultimately they immigrated to America and Mr. Yalkin was born in Manhattan. Turkey, he said, is “always a really interesting place for me to be, because I see it as a place that I could have grown up in if my parents had decided to stay.”

Mr. Yalkin tries to return at least once a year, visiting the area where his parents met, going back to Buyukada, an island off the mainland where he used to vacation as a child, and hanging out by the Bosporus. “I’ve seen both progression and regression in terms of politics, in terms of style, in terms of the arts,” he said of his visits over the past decade.

This time he was back to shoot street style. “When it comes to style in Istanbul, it’s such a convergence of two worlds, old and new,” he said. “You have these younger generations shining stylistically, in terms of what they want to wear, even if it’s trending or not.” The older generations “keep things kind of traditional and classy — it’s such a beautiful dichotomy.”