He was born in 1981 in the Karacabey district of Bursa. He received bachelor's degrees from Anadolu University Faculty of Business Administration and Istanbul University Faculty of Sociology. He took various trainings and participated in workshops at PhotoWorld Photography Center Along with his interest in the art of photography. He founded Bigworks in 2011 after working as a designer and art director in various advertising agencies. He was the idea and project creator of the Lights of the City Photography Contest produced for the Uludağ Electric brand in 2012. With this project, he won the HİÇ (Public Relations Studies) award organized by the Bursa Public Relations Association. He managed the project and served as a jury member for 3 terms. In 2012, his first photo book was published with the photographs he took in 4 cities within the scope of the "We Enlighten the Values of the City" project. He held his first exhibition with mobile photographs he took in Prague, Budapest, Bursa and Istanbul at BursaPhotoFestin 2014. He continues his advertising and photography work.
The city is a place that exists with the encounters, interactions and co-productions of people who share it, forming the ground for sociality established between different people. The daily life of the urban person is always experienced by reproducing himself on this ground in the sociality of distance and togetherness.
Due to its historical background and the differences of the people who share it, Istanbul is a multicultural and multi-identity world metropolis. Istanbul has many faces and silhouettes; you lose what you see in Balat in Suleymaniye, you forget the atmosphere you dived in Suleymaniye in the rhythm of Beyoglu. Public spaces of Istanbul; streets, avenues, under bridges, ferries, trams are a navigation for those who live it. This navigation, which establishes the urban experience, is the possibility of coincidences, encounters, foreign intimacy or distances at a glance.
Unlike the traveler "who comes today and goes tomorrow" in the definition of the urban sociologist Simmel, the stranger is the person "who comes today and remains tomorrow". According to this, the stranger interacts with society and his distant relationship with the society indicates that “what is near is far away; but the stranger's strangeness shows that the distant is also near ”. My photographs are also the stories of strangers at a distance from a gaze, where I captured the unfamiliar Istanbul through my own coincidences. My perspective includes the gap between strangers and also the relativity of the distance in the photograph.
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