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Seed   16"x 20" Inkjet Prints from 4x5 Color Transparencies     In order to visualize the idea of repetition and symbolism forming a pattern in myths and fairy tales, I have chosen ‘apple’ as a metaphoric element. And tried to form a repetitive series by taking the photos of different apples in order to show their repetition and their subtle differences. The horizontal cut of apples allows us to see the apple seeds. If you sprout apple seeds of the same apple, once they become trees they will never give the same kind of apple, but a new kind of apple, just like humans or other species. They are all the same but different.

    Drum Scanned 4"x 5" Black and White negatives   This is an extension of my project Humble Servant in response to Charles Baudelaire's reaction to photography in 1859.

Humble Servant   Hand-coated Silver Gelatin emulsion on Arches Watercolour paper, 22"x30"   “If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally. It is time, then, for it to return to its true duty, which is to be the servant of the sciences and arts— but the very humble servant, like printing or shorthand, which have neither created nor supplemented literature.” (Charles Baudelaire, Salon of 1859)

Receptacle   "Ce n'est ni un objet, ni un sujet. "   Receptacle is about space. And, this is an undefined space, a space which cannot be measured, which cannot be contained. It tends to be a container by itself. It is a space between a chair and a desk; it is a black hole inside a tree, erasing identity; it is a stove, a space which is an opening and closing at the same time. Receptacle is a metaphor for the ever-changing aspect of visual representation itself. It is a search for an undefined space, an intermediary between 'black and white film photography' and digital painting, neither covering nor exposing each other as an object or as a subject.

16"x10" Inkjet Prints from 4x5 BW negatives     While questioning the life, impact and the size of things such as power and longevity as we experience through our individual physical space and our own cognition, I am aiming to create a new universe with one of the most colourful and diverse and sometimes fragile fruit: the berries.

The Parts of distance   Silver Gelatin Prints, 16"x 20" Distance makes a being ‘another’ being; distance brings spatial awareness of one thing to its habitation as well as to its own parts.But distance is a term that transcends physicality; distance also creates emotional attachments and cultural identities. Distance is simply relative to us, near or far.

  Founded in 2013, Animal Photographers Society is composed of three members including an animal, a human and a hybrid.

10"x10" Silver Gelatin Print     Beginning in 1960’s a large scale of Turkish immigrants moved to Germany and other countries in North-Europe. These immigrants, often coming from rural areas, were employed as low wage labor force. They were monolingual and unskilled workers. They were also unfamiliar with urban western life-style and were subject to the impact of cultural differences. The first immigrants were male workers leaving their families in their homeland, in the 1970’s family reunification allowed their families to join them in Germany. My project is aiming to reverse the situation in a way to bring a parody of the German Turkish immigrants of the 70’s, by representing them with a Turkish-Canadian immigrant couple of the 2010’s living in Canada as skilled workers.

    Through Barber’s Mirror I am recreating a personal memory: when I was about 4 years old I had my first short haircut because of a lice infestation. The whole experience wasn't scary only because of these tiny little animals partying in between my curls but also because of a sudden change in my appearance stripping my head from my body.

    "Ce n'est ni un objet, ni un sujet. "   spatial/sequential process