Photography has never been simply a medium for me. It has been a way of observing, questioning, remembering, and understanding the world.
For more than two decades, my work has moved between documentary photography, conceptual projects, installation, video, and visual storytelling. Rather than focusing on a single subject or aesthetic approach, I have been interested in the spaces where personal experience and visual representation intersect.
Some projects begin with people. Others begin with landscapes, cities, objects, or fragments of personal memory. What connects them is a curiosity about memory, identity, place, and the ways reality is experienced, interpreted, and reconstructed through images.
Throughout my career, I have exhibited my work in galleries, universities, festivals, and cultural institutions, while participating in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Türkiye and abroad. My projects have received recognition from international photography competitions, including PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris and the London International Creative Competition.
Alongside my artistic practice, I continue to explore photography through writing, publishing, and research, examining the changing relationship between images, technology, and contemporary culture.
The projects presented on this website represent different periods, questions, and experiments from an ongoing visual journey.
Awards & Recognition
2011 : PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris / Official Selection
2011 : PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris / Official Selection
2010 : PX3 People’s Choice / Third Prize
2010 : PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris / Honorable Mention
2009 : London International Creative Competition / Winner
2009 : PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris / Honorable Mention
2009 : TMMOB “Izmir In Photographs” Photography Competition / Exhibition.
2008 : PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris / Honorable Mention.
2007 : PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris / Winner
2007 : 1.Konak Municipality & City Culture and Tourism Headship / Winner.
2007 : 1.Konak Municipality & City Culture and Tourism Headship / Honorable Mention.
2004 : Grundfos “Young Looking to Turkey” Black&White Photography Competition / Purchasing.
2004 : Turkish Ready Mixed Concrete Association Photography Competition “Concrete is Beautiful” / Exhibition.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
Not as it seems!
2019 : Labirent Art Gallery – İstanbul
Blind Man’s Buff
2016 : Dokuz Eylül Üniversity Fine Arts Faculty Art Gallery
Another Looking London
2015 : Hayalbaz – İzmir
2013 : Fotohane Gallery Alsancak – İzmir
Huzur
2012 : Nevvar-Salih İşgören Basın Sitesi Huzurevi – İzmir
“Women”
2015 : DEBAT VI.Bilim Şenliği – İzmir
2010 : İFOD Olcayto Caneri Exhibition Hall – Izmir
2010 : Izmir Sanat Kultur Merkezi – Izmir
2010 : International Istanbul Women’s Meeting – Istanbul
Camille
2010 : Ismet Inonu Cultre Center – Izmir
2010 : Şişli Haldun Dormen Theatre – Istanbul
2010 : French Culture Center – Izmir
Fotomotif
2007 : Toyota Akdemir Plaza – Izmir
2007 : Motor Show Fair – Izmir
10 Photograph 10 Murder
2010 : Konak Municipality Alsancak Turkan Saylan Exhibition Hall – Izmir
2007 : Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Fine Arts Exhibition Hall – Izmir
2007 : K2 Art Gallery – Izmir
Fokugra
2007 : Uludag University Exhibiton Hall – Bursa
2007 : Muğla University Exhibiton Hall – Mugla
III.Richard, Light and Violence
2006 : Marmara University Exhibiton Hall – Istanbul
2005 : Tekzen Art Gallery – Istanbul
2005 : IFSAK 1. Young Photographers Festival – Istanbul
2005 : 3. Canakkale Photography Festival – Canakkale
2005 : Izmir Sanat Art Gallery – Izmir
2004 : 9. International Bursa Child and Youth Theatre Festival – Bursa
2004 : 43. International Bursa Culture and Art Festival – Bursa
OTHER EXIBITION & PROJECTS
2016 : Körebe Instalation – DOXA / Dokuz Eylül Üniversity Fine Arts Faculty Art Gallery – İzmir
2015 : Recycling Nature – Psychedelic Art Gallery – Neon Festival – Bursa
2015 : Psychedelic Art Gallery – İstanbul
2015 : Psychedelic Art Gallery – İzmir
2014: SES – Videoart and Instalation – Dokuz Eylül Üniversity Fine Arts Faculty Art Gallery – İzmir
2014: Big Brother Watching You
2014: 2073 – Instalation
MIXED EXHIBITIONS
2014 : TC Kültür Bakanlığı Devlet Resim Heykel Müzesi İZMİR – İnsanlığın Sanatı Merhamet
2007 : IFOD Traditional Exhibitions – Red
2006 : Mention of Husnu Tekin Exhibition
2006 : Historical Scene of Izmir
2006 : Dokuz Eylul University Fine Arts Faculty – Composite Exhibiton
2006 : Historical and Cultural Values of Izmir
2006 : IFOD Traditional Exhibitions – Black
2006 : IFOD 20th Year Exhibition
2005 : 26th Universiade Izmir Mixed Exhibition
2005 : Aegean Region Chamber of Industry – Vitrines
2004 : Turkish Ready Mixed Concrete Association Photography Competition Exhibition “Concrete is Beautiful”
2001 : IFOD Traditional Exhibitions – Naked
2000 : IFOD Traditional Exhibitions – The Other