Is Air, Water and Land Better Without Us?

Şengül Bekmez

Şengül Bekmez

Şengül Bekmez

Şengül Bekmez

Born in 1964, Sivas. In 1987, she graduated from Mathematics department of Hacettepe University, and also she finished her Master Programme at Cumhuriyet University. She was worked in MEB as a Mathematics Teacher and she retired from this job. In 2010, she started Photography at AFSAD. In 2012, she was member of AFSAD and she participated a lot of works also she is involved in painting. She attended many group exhibitions in national and international. She still continues to taking photograph and paintings.

Everything was beautiful. We sit with the keyboard and say, "Let's not pollute the environment, let's protect animals, let's protect nature," but we were not doing anything serious about it. We were relieving our consciences with the texts we wrote, the photographs we took, the films, the speeches we had. Then we have come until 2020, complaining about noise, air pollution, food contamination, deterioration of the environmental balance.

The emergence of corona virus, its rapid spread to the whole world, and the declaration of a pandemic, necessarily made people stay their homes. Nature finally had a chance to breathe a sigh of relief. Airplanes landed, factories closed, exhausts went silent. Wild animals started to be seen wondering what was going on in many cities of the world,. The sky seemed so blue for the first time. It was the first time that the water were so clear. Fishes began to appear again in the deep blue seas. But we are human beings...

Unfortunately, we think everything is for us. We start to pollute our beloved world again with the new normalization. Regretfully.

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