Biography: Aytunç Akad was born in 1976 in Istanbul. He became interested in documentaries concerning social issues while taking photography classes between 1994-1998 at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. He has produced documentary photo series from around the world for national and international media including Newsweek, Geo Atlantic, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, The Observer, [...]
Biography: Kerem Yucel was born in Istanbul. After earning his B.S. in agricultural engineering, he started to work as an environmental impact specialist in oil pipeline projects. Thanks to these projects, he traveled far and wide throughout Anatolia and had the chance to get to know both the geography and the cultures of this ancient [...]
Özgeçmiş: Servet Dilber was born in 1975 in Istanbul. He graduated from Kabatas High School. After graduating from Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Fine Arts Department of Photography, he worked as a photo editor in newspaper, magazine and book projects. His photographs have also been published in national and international magazines and newspapers such as [...]
Biography: Emin Özmen was born in Sivas, Turkey. He studied Physics at “19 Mayıs University ” in Samsun, before moving on to photographic studies in the Fine Arts Faculty at “Marmara University”, Istanbul. In 2008, thanks to funding from HSBC, he published two photo-books named “Humans Of Anatolia” and “Microcredit Stories in Turkey”, a collection [...]
Biography: Mehmet Unal was born in Çanakkale in 1951. In 1963, he emigrated with his family to Istanbul. He started as an amateur at the Bakırköy People’s House Theatre. After studying at the Lisans Cultural Center Theater School, he tried to advance his theater training with the group of individuals that left Lisans Cultural Center. [...]
Biography: Erdal Küpeli was born in Malatya in 1945. Küpeli completed his primary and high school education in Malatya and graduated from the Master Architecture Department of Istanbul Fine Arts Academy of the State in 1972. He has actively worked in the establishment of the Turkish Film Archives (now the Cinema and Television Research Center), [...]
Biography: Ariana Lindquist grew up in a small town in northern Minnesota, USA. She studied anthropology at the University of Minnesota before moving to Taiwan to learn Mandarin Chinese. After receiving a Masters of Arts in Visual Communication from Ohio University, she relocated to China on a Fulbright grant and remained there for seven years [...]
Biography: Enri Canaj was born in Tirana, Albania, in 1980. He spent his early childhood there and moved with his family to Greece in 1991, immediately after the opening of the borders. He is based in Athens and covers stories in Greece and the Balkans. He studied photography at the Leica Academy in Athens. In [...]
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