Serkan Çolak was born in Balikesir, Turkey. After living in several regions of Turkey, he settled in Izmir in 2005.
He is interested on documentary photography since then. His projects deals with different topics such as urbanization process and focus on issues around cultural diversity and human rights in Turkey. His photographs were exhibited in many countries and festivals.He published his first photobook called On The Road in 2019.
He is co-founder MahzenPhotos collective and No 238.
About The Collection
Shadows. Silhouettes. Figures wreathed in mist and smoke. For Turkish photographer Serkan Çolak, artfully obscuring the world can become another way of revealing it. “I believe that what we don’t know is more important than what we do know,” Serkan says of his atmospheric, anonymous portraits and street photographs. Well as street scenes that feel oddly universal: lacking any cues of where they were taken, his pictures might be from any city or town in the world. “Curiosity is linked to innovation or the discovery of something totally unknown. Photographs must make a person become curious. It’s not what we see, but how we see it and how we go beyond what we’ve seen.”
This is not hunting, I never agreed to be an image hunter. I just see the world like this. The photos are my visual diary..
