Portrait in Dışkapı, Ankara
2015 · Ankara It was a very cold Ankara morning. We were living in Çayyolu. Back then I'd jumped on a minibus and gone to Dışkapı. The cold air was blowing this…
A Mardin Mother with Two Children
2018 · Mardin When Damla was going to Mardin I tagged along after her. We stayed in a hotel in Mardin for a week. After seeing Damla off to work I would go out…
Portrait of Rayhan
2022 · Ankara This is a corner of our house where Rayhan and I have breakfast and chat every morning. We'd been talking again, talking, exchanging ideas. Who knows…
Damla and Shadows in Cappadocia
2021 · Cappadocia A frame I took on the Cappadocia trip we went on with Ali Rıza's cycling group. The light was very beautiful, all the cyclists excited, they were…
The Tree on the Village Road
2018 · Ankara This was a frame I took before the buses started running. That day I'm in the kitchen. I'm thinking about the frame I have to take for my 365-day…
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Two Girls Selling Handicrafts
Morning in Dubai
2015 · Dubai Every morning I would go out for a walk. I would witness the sun coming up. It was another morning like that. An Indian woman I was walking with…
Those Who Earn Their Bread from Refuse
2022 · Istanbul I'm in Istanbul. The camera around my neck is as heavy as can be but I carry it just in case. We're walking toward the metro, my sister Hüda and I. I…
Yusuf
2022 · Ankara Şadiye's last child. We finally had her tubes tied and stopped her having any more children. The last character of the five children. Of course a…
Portrait in Dışkapı, Ankara
2015 · Ankara It was a very cold Ankara morning. We were living in Çayyolu. Back then I'd jumped on a minibus and gone to Dışkapı. The cold air was blowing this…
A Mardin Mother with Two Children
2018 · Mardin When Damla was going to Mardin I tagged along after her. We stayed in a hotel in Mardin for a week. After seeing Damla off to work I would go out…
Portrait of Rayhan
2022 · Ankara This is a corner of our house where Rayhan and I have breakfast and chat every morning. We'd been talking again, talking, exchanging ideas. Who knows…
Damla and Shadows in Cappadocia
2021 · Cappadocia A frame I took on the Cappadocia trip we went on with Ali Rıza's cycling group. The light was very beautiful, all the cyclists excited, they were…
The Tree on the Village Road
2018 · Ankara This was a frame I took before the buses started running. That day I'm in the kitchen. I'm thinking about the frame I have to take for my 365-day…
Awaiting
Two Girls Selling Handicrafts
Morning in Dubai
2015 · Dubai Every morning I would go out for a walk. I would witness the sun coming up. It was another morning like that. An Indian woman I was walking with…
Those Who Earn Their Bread from Refuse
2022 · Istanbul I'm in Istanbul. The camera around my neck is as heavy as can be but I carry it just in case. We're walking toward the metro, my sister Hüda and I. I…
Yusuf
2022 · Ankara Şadiye's last child. We finally had her tubes tied and stopped her having any more children. The last character of the five children. Of course a…
Mother Carrying Her Child
2015 · Dubai In Dubai I'd gone to this market to buy dates for Aral… It was a vegetable market with produce coming from all four corners of the world… The dates…
Ayşegül, in Black and White
2020 · Ankara Ayşegül, a girl who lives in the village near my home, I find her face so full of meaning. Her soul and her heart are as beautiful as her pure, clean…
İsmail and His Mother
2018 · Ankara
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Father and Son in İstanbul
Portrait of My Sister Sıdıka
2015 · Istanbul I took it when we went to the graduation of Hüda's son Deniz. My sister Sıdıka and I had jumped on a bus and gone. So there was no train between…
Father and Son in Didim
2022 · Aydın On our first trip to Didim with Rayhan… I loved Aras's swimming trunks so much. They were nearly as long as he was tall. I had sat down on the…
Storks at Gökhöyük
2023 · Konya Every time I go to Gökhöyük I can't always see the storks, but their nest was still there. This time they were there. It was the early hours of the…
Under the Musa Tree
2015 · Antakya Whatever its name is in the village, among people it must be known as Musa Tree Village. This bench on the left side of the tree is never empty…
A Woman Walking Her Dog, and the Wall
2014 · Dubai The thing that makes this photograph beautiful was really the colored wall. This wall was in the Jumeirah Lake Towers neighborhood. Every morning I…
Mother Carrying Her Child
2015 · Dubai In Dubai I'd gone to this market to buy dates for Aral… It was a vegetable market with produce coming from all four corners of the world… The dates…
Ayşegül, in Black and White
2020 · Ankara Ayşegül, a girl who lives in the village near my home, I find her face so full of meaning. Her soul and her heart are as beautiful as her pure, clean…
İsmail and His Mother
2018 · Ankara
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Father and Son in İstanbul
Portrait of My Sister Sıdıka
2015 · Istanbul I took it when we went to the graduation of Hüda's son Deniz. My sister Sıdıka and I had jumped on a bus and gone. So there was no train between…
Father and Son in Didim
2022 · Aydın On our first trip to Didim with Rayhan… I loved Aras's swimming trunks so much. They were nearly as long as he was tall. I had sat down on the…
Storks at Gökhöyük
2023 · Konya Every time I go to Gökhöyük I can't always see the storks, but their nest was still there. This time they were there. It was the early hours of the…
Under the Musa Tree
2015 · Antakya Whatever its name is in the village, among people it must be known as Musa Tree Village. This bench on the left side of the tree is never empty…
A Woman Walking Her Dog, and the Wall
2014 · Dubai The thing that makes this photograph beautiful was really the colored wall. This wall was in the Jumeirah Lake Towers neighborhood. Every morning I…
My Mother and My Aunt Maviş
2019 · Samandağ When my elder sister wanted to go to America to visit her children, I brought my mother to Ankara. When my sister announced that she was extending…
Going Out with Mother
2014 · Antakya Ah my dear Antakya, Antakya of the narrow streets and the many memories… A young mother is going out for a walk with the child whose hand she is…
A Woman Braiding Her Friend's Hair
2014 · São Paulo I took this photograph in Brazil, where I went in May 2015. The weather was lovely, we were wandering the streets, we were in São Paulo together with…
Galata Tower and Birds
2022 · Istanbul This frame that Aral took shows how right I am in what I think. Why? Because Aral is my most merciless critic. He criticizes my photographs…
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Sheila
Cyclist from Above
2014 · Dubai I took this frame from Aral's 12th floor. Because all day long people would go to work around the lake, take walks, wander about. The bicycle was an…
Fishmongers at the Ankara Market
2019 · Ankara The Ankara market crowded as always. Fish season, evidently. Fishmongers are a subject photographers love. There are interesting faces, all sorts of…
A Coppersmith's Shop in Antakya
2015 · Antakya This is a frame I took in 2015. Coffee pots, mortars, cauldrons set one inside the other, all of them objects of my childhood. A yogurt pot hung up…
Syrian Women in İstanbul
2023 · Istanbul
Apartments in Dubai
2015 · Dubai This was the view from Aral's apartment on the 12th floor. At night it had a very beautiful lit-up view. Jumeirah Lake Towers was the name of the…
The Shepherd and His Dog
2018 · Ankara In Şehit Ali the shepherds are always Afghan. I don't know whether they feed their dogs but they're all thin, frail, unhappy, sadly… Loyalty is in a…
Two African Women in Dubai
2015 · Dubai It must have been a Saturday, because in Dubai Friday and Saturday are the holidays. Sunday is a working day. Aral and I decided to go to the beach…
Portrait of Two Men, One Indian, One Pakistani
2015 · Dubai I took this frame at the fish market in Dubai. After seeing Aral off to work I would think about where to go today, where to take photographs. There…
My Mother and My Aunt Maviş
2019 · Samandağ When my elder sister wanted to go to America to visit her children, I brought my mother to Ankara. When my sister announced that she was extending…
Going Out with Mother
2014 · Antakya Ah my dear Antakya, Antakya of the narrow streets and the many memories… A young mother is going out for a walk with the child whose hand she is…
A Woman Braiding Her Friend's Hair
2014 · São Paulo I took this photograph in Brazil, where I went in May 2015. The weather was lovely, we were wandering the streets, we were in São Paulo together with…
Galata Tower and Birds
2022 · Istanbul This frame that Aral took shows how right I am in what I think. Why? Because Aral is my most merciless critic. He criticizes my photographs…
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Sheila
Cyclist from Above
2014 · Dubai I took this frame from Aral's 12th floor. Because all day long people would go to work around the lake, take walks, wander about. The bicycle was an…
Fishmongers at the Ankara Market
2019 · Ankara The Ankara market crowded as always. Fish season, evidently. Fishmongers are a subject photographers love. There are interesting faces, all sorts of…
A Coppersmith's Shop in Antakya
2015 · Antakya This is a frame I took in 2015. Coffee pots, mortars, cauldrons set one inside the other, all of them objects of my childhood. A yogurt pot hung up…
Syrian Women in İstanbul
2023 · Istanbul
Apartments in Dubai
2015 · Dubai This was the view from Aral's apartment on the 12th floor. At night it had a very beautiful lit-up view. Jumeirah Lake Towers was the name of the…
The Shepherd and His Dog
2018 · Ankara In Şehit Ali the shepherds are always Afghan. I don't know whether they feed their dogs but they're all thin, frail, unhappy, sadly… Loyalty is in a…
Two African Women in Dubai
2015 · Dubai It must have been a Saturday, because in Dubai Friday and Saturday are the holidays. Sunday is a working day. Aral and I decided to go to the beach…
Portrait of Two Men, One Indian, One Pakistani
2015 · Dubai I took this frame at the fish market in Dubai. After seeing Aral off to work I would think about where to go today, where to take photographs. There…