Nuri Bilge Ceylan'ın lise yıllarında başladığı fotoğraf çalışmaları, üniversite sonrası bir 10 yıl kadar kesintiye uğradıysa da, İklimler filminin mekan arayışları sırasında Türkiye'yi dolaşırken tekrar alevlendi. O günden sonra sinemanın yanı sıra fotoğrafı da sürdürdü. Sinemaskop Türkiye kitabı, Nuri Bilge Ceylan'ın 2003 yılından beri Türkiye'nin çeşitli bölgelerinde çekmiş olduğu 100 adet panoramik fotoğrafı içermektedir.

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Ceylan is the recipient of Honorary Heart Award at the 24th Sarajevo Film Festival. Turkey Cinemascope accompanied the exhibition of the same name in Sarajevo in August 2018. Nuri Bilge Ceylan's book is multi-layered storytold through breathtaking single imge spreads evoking the subtle emotion of everyday rural life in Turkey. His latest Winter Sleep received the Palme d’or, the highest prize awarded at the festival. Ceylan was shortlisted for the Palme d’or in 2018 for The Wild Pear Tree.  With minimal accompanying text, the book’s multi-layered story is told through photographs alone. Turkey Cinemascope contains 100 panoramic photographs taken by Ceylan in various regions of rural Anatolia between 2003-2014. Nuri Bilge Ceylan has always attracted keen interest on the global scene.

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Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s films, in which long takes and unusual viewpoints are used, betray the desire of the stillness and the shadows of playing the lead role. The commitment of his photographs to a profound imagination can be seen as the clue to success of his films. The photographs, which are identical to film frames and standing by themselves appear as pure compositions, transform elegy to elegance.
This trilingual book published by Dirimart and printed using the K-Bind technique, opens up completely flat, allowing imagery to flow undisturbed across a double-page spread. It begins with a vivid excerpt from the screenplay of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s movie Small Town (1997). With minimal accompanying text, the book’s multilayered story is told through photographs alone.