Özgür Ülker

Özgür Ülker is an Istanbul-based photographic artist whose long-term projects explore time, memory, sacredness and witnessing through light, water, movement and silence. In his ongoing Bosphorus series, he approaches the strait not as a familiar cityscape but as a shifting threshold and field of memory. Working from a moving boat at sunset, he uses motion to hold an unfolding process within a single frame, tracing transient changes in atmosphere and the tension between what is seen and what is felt.

Since 2002, he has also worked professionally in advertising and stage photography. He has taught photography at university, led workshops and seminars for more than a decade, and worked as an art consultant and creative director. Philosophy, music, poetry and sacred texts inform his visual language. He is currently developing a documentary series on self-construction and identity.

Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Photography