Dervis Dervisoglu

born in Cyprus 1958. Studied at Chichester University for a Degree in art after a succesful working life in engineering.everything about life fascinates me. I

I was born in 1958 at Pendaya, Cyprus. Grew up and completed my high school studies in Nicosia. This city is the capital city of Cyprus and the only city in which has a dividing wall between two ethnic occupants in Europe. My childhood and teenage years have been at the most terrible times of Cypriot conflict. If it wasn’t active war there was ceasefire in my Island. I was kind with art and take extra art lessons. At high school graduation show in 1976 I had a corner filled with my paintings and ceramic sculptures, performed in the school orchestra playing Guitar and worked at the backstage for the drama club. In 1976 I went to Ankara, Turkey to study Chemical Engineering at Hacettepe University which was one of the English teaching institutions. Turkey was in social unrest and politically corrupt country. I stepped into another war zone. My fellow student friends nicknamed me Nero as I was to blame for smashing the wooden wardrobes to use as firewood in the last days of the seized Cypriot Students Dormitory. I pursue my Artistic interests on Photography and soon become the first honorary member of the Ankara Amateur Photography Artists Society (AFSAD). Working as an active member I joined to Photographic explorations around Turke...