Turning Around Fear

Özel Karadeniz

Özel Karadeniz

Özel Karadeniz

Özel Karadeniz

She was born in Erzincan. She completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Gaziantep. Graduated from Gazi University Faculty of Education and Anadolu University Open Education Faculty Photography and Videography Department. She works as a classroom teacher. She started photography with the basic photography training she received from Adana Photography Amateurs Association (Afad) in 2004. She attended Haluk Uygur Different Horizons, Sefa Ulukan Unimpeded and Vahap Akşen Languages of Photography workshops. She conducts autobiographical studies describing her feelings and thoughts. She received the AFIAP title in 2013 from the Federation Internationale de L'art Photographique (International Photographic Art Federation ), after taking the over 30 Honorable Mention and exhibition awards from international competitions organised in Turkey, the UK, Poland, Serbia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Taiwan, Ukraine, Andorra, India, Switzerland and Belgium.

At the same time that the global corona epidemic was reported extensively in the media, I experienced a mental transformation in which my whole self was shaken with a deep fear of death due to the symptoms of similar illnesses that appeared in me. During this period, I felt that I was reducing my existence to just bodily, isolating it from its social and cultural ties. It was a pure fear of death. I realized this series in order to be a kind of therapy for myself by visualizing what I felt in that period against the possibility of this turning into a trauma that will leave deep traces. I think this work makes sense with the awareness that many people like me struggle with similar feelings, question their lifestyles fundamentally, and with the awareness that they should get used to a new normal lifestyle in the future with the measures taken.

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