Daniel Turan

Born and raised in Vienna, Austria, I spent most of my adolescence in Europe before packing my things and moving to the Middle East. I lived and worked in places like Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Lebanon. Currently based in Dubai, with a job in the digital industry, my day consist of meetings, workshops and countless discussions. Photography is a way of bringing silence and deceleration into an otherwise hectic lifestyle.

If I was to label my style of photography, then it would be something like ‘Street Noir’. I seek to emphasize the dark soul of people, objects and places. Images that have that edgy, raw, quirky or just plain dark look. I appreciate and chase beauty in the conventional, societal definition of the word, as well as in the controversial and provoking sense. My images do not scream, they are muted.