Birgul Yildirir

Biography:
Born in Balıkesir, 1971 and working as an English teacher since 1992. She had her first personal exhibition in 2014 BursaPhotoFest and also featured in Osman Önder Photography Society’s exhibition “The Frame”. She staged The Living Heritage Sites of Bursa exhibition with Zeynep Diniz for UNESCO in June 2015. Her photographs appeared in many group exhibitions and she has national and international awards.

Photography, something she’d initially thought as a hobby, got much deeper and pulling her inside, took over most of her life. The meaning of photography that goes far beyond being just “an image” guides her in this long journey of photography.

Exhibition: A Mosaic, Bursa
“Human migration is the movement by people from one place to another to settle temporarily or permanently in the new location.”

This project was started due to the realization of such phenomenon. Bursa is a mosaic city where people migrate to from a large variety of geographical places such as Artvin, Syria or Salonika. The reason is sometimes to provide their children with better educational facilities, sometimes unbearable yearning to a loved one or sometimes just by coincidence… Whatever the reason is, migration is an undeniable fact of today’s world, maybe an inherited feature of us from Middle Asia.

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