Born in 1981, Adana. She graduated from faculty of Management and department of Oral and Dental Health Programme of 19 Mayıs University. She works as a dental technician in a private institution. She started to taking photograph in 2014. In 2018, her photographs took a part at an exhibition titled ‘Bu İşin Arkasında Kadın Var’ sponsored by Adana Metropolitan Municipality and Adana City Council. She continues her photography works in the ‘South Adana Development’ project run by AFAD and the Governorship of Adana.
Born in 1979, Mersin. She is Biology graduate of Ankara University. After her appointment as a teacher to Erciş-Çelebibağı town near Lake Van in 2005, she started photography with curiosity of taking photos of flamingos. In 2010, she took lessons about Basic Photography at AFAD. In 2018, her photographs took a part at an exhibition titled ‘Bu İşin Arkasında Kadın Var’ sponsored by Adana Metropolitan Municipality and Adana City Council.
History of carpet and rug weaving is a story that goes back to B.C 5th century. Carpets and rugs have unique motifs and colors in every region of Anatolia. It turns into an emotional art in the hands of the master by being weaved on the looms. You tell what is forbidden to tell with the motifs you weave and pour your heart; you imprint your love, fears, dreams, longing and happiness. Each motif expresses a feeling, a wish. While young girls express their wishes for marriage with the earrings and chest motif they also add their hair to the carpet and rug they weave, and convey their feelings to families with the hair tie motif. They used to weave amulets and eye motifs to protect themselves from evil eyes. They used to describe feminity, productivity and abundance with the “hands on waist motif”. The ram’s horn was the symbol of the man and the fetter motif is the symbol of abundance. They imprint the tree of life so that they were together with the loved ones forever.
Carpet, rug weaving is also a mixture of time. It tells you when it is, a folk song tells a tale. These emotional works have been passed down from generation to generation and carried a tradition of hundreds of years to the present day.
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