Education
January 2013-present PhD Photography, London College of Communication, University of Arts London
2010-2012 MA Visual Arts, Teaching Assistant, Sabanc? University and Teaching Assistant
2006-2010 BA Photography and Video, I?stanbul Bilgi University
2001-2006 Galileo Galilei Italian High School
Teaching Experience
June - July 2013 Koc University, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Media and Visual Arts Department, Photography Course Instructor
September 2010- June 2012 Sabanc? University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, VCDVA Department, Teaching Assistant
February 2009 -February 2012 ?stanbul Bilgi University, Youth Studies Unit, K?sa Dalga Youth Center, Photography Workshop Trainer
Awards
June 2011- ‘Press’ Category, Gold Winner, Prix de la Photographie Competition PARIS
June 2011- ‘Portrait’ Category,Official Selection, Prix de la Photographie Competition PARIIS
Exhibitions
Track 7, Group Exhibition, Istanbul Bilgi University, 2007
Track 8, Group Exhibition, Istanbul Bilgi University, 2008
Blowback. Street Exhibition,Photo-performance, New York Times Square, 2011
Blowback. SVA Gallery, Group Exhibition- New York, 2011
Ateliler de Visu, Workshop of Antoine D’agata, Group Slideshow, Marseille, France, 2012
Shared, 5533 IMÇ, Group Exhibition, Istanbul, 2012
When I was a kid, the clouds were blue, Group Exhibition, UFAD, Bursa, 2012
Biz öyle bir ?ey ya?amad?k, GF?, Solo Exhibition, ?stanbul, 2012
When I was a kid, the clouds were blue. Solo Exhibition, Nafpaktos, Greece, 2012
Research Show - Photography and the Contemporary Imaginary, Well Gallery, London, 2013
Gelatista, Art Below - Holborn London Underground, London, 2013
The Other Art Fair, Art Below Stand, London, 2013
Marseille seen by 100 photographers, Group Exhibition, Gallery of La bibliothèque départementale, Marseille, 2013
Close Quarters, Istanbul Modern Museum, Group Exhibition, Istanbul, 2013
Raw Talent, Hoxton Gallery. London, June 2013
When I was a kid, the clouds were blue, Group Exhibition,Atelier de visu gallery / Gallery of les Beaux Arts de Marseille, Marseille, France, October 2013
This Was, CosArtWalk Festival, Solo Exhibition,Tava Restaurant, London, October 2013
Second Eye Women Photographers from Turkey, Semiha Es International Photography Symposium, Istanbul, November 2013
Books
Cut / Kesik, 2010
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a documentary kit project, a visual research, a 35 min. documentary film with a book of photographs, illustrations and related text, about female genital cutting,
it’s effects for an individual and for a society and the decision of abondoning female genital cutting in West Africa.
We have not lived through such a thing / Biz öyle bir ?ey ya?amad?k, 2012
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This work is about the relationship between photography and romantic love; Memory photographs have always coexisted with the feeling of love;
but love can not exist without photography either. This work is an analysis of the co-existence of 'the romantic love affair' and its photographs installed in people’s houses.
This was, 2013
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Artist Residencies
February 2012, Marseille, France. Atelier de Visu, Photography Residency - (workshop directed by the Magnum Photography Agency Photographer Antoine D’agata)
July 2011, New York, USA- Photography Artist Residency, School of Visual Arts
Interviews, Publications and Panels
Workshop by Antoine d’agata, Journal 5/6 , published by Atelier de Visu, Studio Vortex. Marseille, 2013.
Der Grief, Issue 7, 2013
Catalog of the Close Quarters exhibition, Istanbul Modern Museum, 2013
Articulus, interactive e-mag, “Biz öyle bir ?ey ya?amad?k”, Interactive exhibition, July issue, Istanbul, 2012
Essay published in e-magazine Orta Format : “Photography and Eros”, Issue# 8
Article published in BirGün Newspaper
Article published in Feminist Politika magazine
Article published in Geo magazine
interviews:
Farkli Bakanlar, TRT, 2013
Interview published in e-magazine Orta Format - Issue # 7
Interview published in magazine InFact - Issue 15-July, Nafpaktos, Greece, July 2012
panels:
Ankara University Woman Studies Department, "Gender Studies and Violence Lecture", Ankara 2010
Documentarist Istanbul, ‘Which Human Rights’, Salt Beyoglu, 2012
Semiha Es International Women Photographers Symposium, Istanbul 2013
RNUAL Presentation, London, 2013
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