The Journey; Poetic Paintings Photograph

I am a Bulgarian born Turkish photographer and visual artist who interested with new objectivity photography and work with 19.th century printing techniques and experimental photography. I hold bachelor and master degree on photography from Dokuz Eylül Univercity, and currently getting my PhD/Proficiency in Art on Art and Design Program at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University. My story begins with my father’s old Zenith camera which he hides on the top of bookshelf. Whenever I was alone at home, I was tampering with it. I always remember my father with his camera on his hands. Unfortunately, my family was forced to migrate from Bulgaria to Turkey with other 300,000 people in 1989 during the dissolution of the socialist regime. We had to leave most of our photos, this camera and many other belongings behind us. However, that never stopped my father from taking pictures until he passed away at this young age of 34. This emotional and traumatic experience led me to turn to photography and reflect it as my artistic expression. I am working on memory, belonging and those left behind. I follow memories, whose fate is to fade away, and which can never be repeated in terms of existence and question the memory and rebuild it. I use randomness as a tool and questioning the representation of photography and pushing its limits on how the photographic image can exist in other ways. It’s all about destiny, accident and coincidence. I am experiencing experience, something “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”.