Born in 1958, Istanbul. Completed primary and high school at Robert College, higher education at the College for the Distributive Trades in London. Her enthusiasm for photography started at secondary school and turned into a hobby. She completed professional photography course at New York Institute of Photography between the years of 2008 and 2011. After this training, photography became an essential discipline in her daily life.
When we look at the Aegean coasts as if browsing the horizon with our eyes, it is close to us, islands far from the mainland ...
Some are closer to Africa; that far from us.
The ancestors of most of its people migrated from Anatolia.
Just as my ancestors migrated from Crete…
The Ottoman has left its traces.
Flavors, architecture, cultural colors, habits, details, spirit; both very close and so far.
When we went with my father to visit his aunt, who had to emigrate from Crete on holidays, They spoke Greek.
Greek radio would be listened to in my grandmother's house in Izmir.
Likewise, the one I met on the Greek islands reminding me of my aunt, grandmother,
When people realized that I was Turkish, they started to speak Turkish.
These people who are taught that we are enemies in schools, how different these lands are from us, how close, how far? ...
Photos has been taken in Symi, Leros, Sifnos, Milos, Koufonisia, Serifos, Samos, Kastelorizo, Amorgos,Chios, Tinos, Crete Islands.
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