Sadik Ucok
Sadik Ücok was born in Adapazarı in 1963. His interest in art and photography started at an early age
and he began to draw cartoons in his school days.
His professional cartoon works appeared in the Çarşaf Humor magazine of Hürriyet Gazette in 1980.
He has also drawn professional cartoons in various cartoon magazines such as “Gırgır” and “Fırt”.
He has developed a serious interest in photography since 1985 and he has been working as a professional photographer since 1992.
Sadik Üçok has won awards in national and international contests and has participated in many exhibitions both in Turkey and abroad.
He has been member of the jury in a number of prestigious photography contests.
He established “FOTOSEK” photo sharing group in Facebook in 2010.
He has been awarded “the Sami Guner” trophy in 2013, one of the prestigious photography awards in Turkey,
for his presentations of “The Blacksmith of Safranbolu”, “Pavli Fair” and “The old and the New Galata Bridge”.
He organized six co-exhibitions in Germany and Turkey together with photographer Ralf J. Diemb between 2014 and 2019
and in the meantime he collaborated with Ralf J. Diemb in editing a photography book “Hayat = Life” which was published in Germany in 2014.
They opened a long-term photograph exhibition called my dear Istanbul, at the Istanbul Photography Museum in 2018.
He has edited several books such as “Engravings on photographs from Turkey”, “Venetian routes in the Mediterranean” and “Ottoman rulers’ tombs “.He worked as a volunteer in virtualizing 100 masterpieces from the collection of the Hatay Archaeology Museum. This virtual project was supported by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Turkish Republic.
Sadik Üçok keeps making graphic design and illustrations for books, magazines and the advertisement sector.
In addition to teaching photography and Photoshop he works on documentary and street photography.
About The Collection
I call myself a social life photographer rather than a street photographer. The next generation will read the history with the photos we take today. The mission of the photographer is the same as a historian. So the photographer is a visual historian. Life is flowing fast and it’s my responsibility to record social life for future generations.
The photo is miracle, and the miracle of this miracle is black and white. I am not against color photography but my passion is black and white. B&W has no deficiency, but on the contrary, all colors are already in an excellent B&W.
