street photographers from turkey
1978 Izmir Turkey ,1996 Izmir Lycee Saint Joseph 2002 Izmir Dokuz Eylul Fine Arts Academy Photography .
Love street, love changing and editing street.Search always for unique beauty. Search for different point of views. Generally mobile photography. Love also analogue (no edit).
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I am Seda Ünnü from Turkey. I was born somewhere in 1977 and then grew up then I ended up where I am now. My photography journey has begun in 2017 (as a serious hobby). I have started to get passionate about photography. Photography is indispensable part of my life. I hope that the connection between me and photography will always be strong. Photography is my freedom zone, there are no restrictions for me. I always try to put my perspectives into my photos. I consider myself a great student in photography. I do not want my thoughts to be limited. I always try to take the most appropriate photos to tell my story in the best way.It’s not interesting to take a spiritless photo, I have to feel it in the best way.
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.
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.
My name is Önder Sertçelik. I live in Istanbul. I have been actively taking street photographs since 2016. I also received documentary photography training. I have 2 photo projects, one about the street and the other about the documentary.My photos were featured in several group exhibitions in Istanbul.
I think Istanbul is a fascinating and interesting city with its streets and human condition. I especially love shooting frames with shadow-light, narrative situations and multiple scatter. I am very interested in cinema, literature, painting and theater. I can say that different art disciplines also inspire me to take more original and creative shots on the street. I usually take my best photos when I go out on my own; because my motivation is higher. Usually in Istanbul, I was heading straight at my photos in my portfolio some photos are photos I took of Turkey in the other cities.
I am Ozan Şafak from Turkey. I was born in İstanbul in 1978. I am a history teacher at the high school. My history with photography begun when I was a child. I first met photography with my father’s analog cameras. I wouldn’t have understood his explanations about cameras working principles at that time. I bought myself a camera in 2010 and started to learn the basic principles of photography myself by buying a lot of photography books. Street photography has become my interest since 2015, which was of interest to documentary photography before.
Now street photography is my passion. I try to photograph city life and İstanbul streets for 3 years longer. Silhouettes and Colors of Istanbul is my main idea. My photography is about light and shadow at the street life. I like to show the texture of the city and the loneliness of the person by using geometry, light and shadows in my photographs.
I am a Turkish photographer, currently based in Kocaeli. Interested in photography approximately for 20 years. Until a few years ago i had been shooting with analog cameras and using dark room in order to develop and print my photos. After 2016, i’ve started to shoot with digital cameras. I only produce black and white photos since i think i can express myself better.
As long as i’ve known myself, i’ve always loved to walk along the streets like a stray dog. While merging into crowds, amongst which I hide and lose myself and driven by the mass of people, I can feel the soul and the sense of the streets. I think this is the summary of my photography.
Well, I’m Belarusian but I reside in Istanbul/Turkey now. The motto for my life is CARPE DIEM (seize the moment). Maybe that’s why street photography is one of my great passions in life. I’m desperately in love with street photography because it is unpredictable. That’s what makes it a challenge. Leaving your house you have no idea what you might see during your street hunt. Letting go and being present in the streets is a liberating feeling. You’re capturing fleeting moments that will never occur the same way again. Well, I took my first candid photos only at the beginning of 2018 but I wish I had discovered it sooner.
Mostly I try to catch some moments of everyday life of Istanbul in more or less artistic way…and I love experimenting with my camera (trying to create something out of nothing). My gallery is pretty chaotic but most of all I’m addicted to silhouettes, shadows and reflections. With street photography you learn to appreciate these little things and details that are always around us but are usually taken for granted. Stay focused, folks!
Silhouettes
That’s what all we’ll be. Just some silhouettes, rarely seen, but yet believed in.
Hi, I am Birgül KOÇ. I live in İstanbul. I am a gynecologist interested in streetphotography.
Street photography, in my opinion, is a concept that is beyond the classical fictional tendencies; it implicates contrasts, spontaneities. it is the light, the shadow, the irregularity. Every passing day in my career I notice that the every day and every moment of life contains different types of people, cases, excitements, worries and joys at the same time. With all this and the necessity of deciding fast and taking action makes me exited and makes my mind, my heart and my soul come to the same line. I feel so lucky because I live in İstanbul; when I leave my home it is possible to encounter a new case that excites me at every corner and every street of this beautiful city.
My portfolio contains only the photographs that are taken in İstanbul. They are taken spontaneously and without any fiction.I am member of Turkuazstreet Collective based in İstanbul.
I am 49 years old, born and based in Istanbul. I am a Chemical Engineer MSc. I am married and I have a 18 years old son. I started photography in 2015 after buying a camera for my son. Due to the reason he was not so interested, i started to use his camera and attended a basic photography course. I found myself in a wonderful world then. After a short time, i started to be interested in street photography.I am a member of TURKUAZ STREET COLLECTIVE since 2019. I like to capture interesting moments of life in ISTANBUL. I can express Street Photography as an antidepresant with positive side effects in ever aspect of life.I participated an exhibition at IFSAK with TURKUAZ STREET COLLECTIVE in Jan 2020. I keep on street photography with passion.
I am Soner ABACI. I live in Ankara. I have been interested in street photography and documentary photography since 2016. Because I like to use light and shadow while shooting street photos, I always go to different parts of the city where can provide me different light conditions. I prepare my documentary works as short projects. Street photography is my passion. I like combining light and shadow. I am in search of strangeness in ordinary life, and always try to improve myself.
Hakan Bıyıklıoğlu was born in İstanbul/Turkey. Father of three, two daughters and a son, Hakan works as a software architecture and has been in the information technology world for a long time. Photography has always been his love.
Chasing for unusual moments and angles in ordinary city spots and streets, he makes use of wide spaces, minimized objects and people, mixed with a feeling of serenity.
Geometry, silhouettes and shadows are mostly in play as well as long exposures. Traveling to rural parts, iconic cities, chatting with people before photographing them are essential parts of his photography adventure.
In city life, our surroundings may seem crowded with people, like a chaos and sometimes even like a jungle. But sometimes a silhouette, a shadow, a geometric forming of architecture with a special angle of light, helps us to find the beauty in most ordinary places.
Aesthetics is hidden for us to see and often comes out easily with a minimalistic approach.
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.
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..
David Gibson (1957) is a British street photographer and writer on photography. He was a member of the UP Photographers street photography collective.
Gibson’s books include The Street Photographer’s Manual (2014) and 100 Great Street Photographs(2017) / Street Photography: a History in 100 Iconic Images (2019). His photography has been published in a number of survey publications on street photography, and exhibited in group exhibitions in Britain (including at the Museum of London, which acquired his work for its permanent collection), at the Museum of the City of New York, and in France, Bangkok and Stockholm.
Italian Street Photography Festival
Andrea Bruce is an award winning documentary photographer whose work focuses on people living in the aftermath of war. She concentrates on the social issues that are sometimes ignored and often ignited in war’s wake. Her clients include National Geographic and The New York Times as well as many publications around the globe. Andrea was a 2016 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University where she studied political theory and democracy. Andrea started working in Iraq in 2003, bringing a local reporter’s knack for intimacy and community focus to the lives of Iraqis and the US military. For over ten years she has chronicled the world’s most troubled areas, focusing on Iraq and Afghanistan. For eight years she worked as a staff photographer for The Washington Post, where she originated and authored a weekly column called “Unseen Iraq.”
David Campany is a writer, curator and artist, working mainly with photography.
This website is an archive of David’s published writings, with information about curatorial projects.
His books include A Handful of Dust (2015), The Open Road: photographic road trips across America (2014), Walker Evans: the magazine work (2014), Gasoline (2013), Jeff Wall: Picture for Women (2010), Photography and Cinema (2008) and Art and Photography (2003). He also writes for Frieze, Aperture, Art Review, FOAM, Source, Photoworks and Tate magazine.
Recent curatorial projects include Dust (Le Bal, Paris, 2015) Walker Evans: anonymous (Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France, 2015), Lewis Baltz: Common Objects (Le Bal, Paris 2014), Victor Burgin: A Sense of Place (AmbikaP3 London, 2013), Mark Neville: Deeds Not Words (The Photographers’ Gallery London, 2013) and Anonymes: Unnamed America in Photography and Film (Le Bal Paris, 2010).
David has a Phd and teaches at the University of Westminster, London.
Anna Godfrey is the London-based Commissioning Editor for Prestel, the international arts publishing house. Prestel publishes award-winning books on photography, art, architecture, design and fashion. These include best-selling street photography titles such as, ‘100 Great Street Photographs’ (2017), ‘Street Photography: A History in 100 Iconic Photographs’ (2019) and Anna’s recent project, ‘Women Street Photographers’ (2021); the first book on women street photographers which collates the work of 100 contemporary women to explore the intersection of public space, photography, gender and power. Anna’s publications have been reviewed and featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Vogue, i-D and many more.
Nikos Economopoulos was born in the Peloponnese, Greece. He studied law in Parma, Italy, and worked as a journalist. In 1988, he started photographing in Greece and Turkey, and eventually abandoned journalism to dedicate himself to photography.
He joined Magnum in 1990, and his photographs began appearing in newspapers and magazines around the world.
In the same period, he started traveling and photographing extensively around the Balkans. The work in the Balkans won him the Mother Jones Award (San Francisco, CA) for work in progress. Upon the completion of his Balkans project in 1994, he became a full member of Magnum. His book In The Balkans was published in 1995 in New York (Abrams) and in Athens (Libro).
Masoud Gharaei was born in March 1988, he is a photographer. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in particular documenting the social classes. He is also the founder of Street Photographers foundation.