* The article, “Öteki Yüz: (The Other Face:) Fotografinin Bittiği Yer / The Place Where Photography Ends” was published in rh+ sanart, issue 34 of Turkey’s Plastic Arts Magazine in November 2006. The development process of photography involves two important periods: Someone said; “Depuis ce jour, la peinture est mort / As of today painting is dead.” The first is the period that lasted until these exaggerated remarks of the painter Paul Delarouche on August 19, 1839, during the official announcement of the daguerrotype imaging technology to the world; the other is the new period that started with Daguerre and lasts until today. In the context of the developments between the beginning and the present, the interaction of painting and photography, is the belief of an important fraction that would make William Turner say “I am pleased that my period fell behind”. This is the idea that photography will replace painting and the debates on whether or not photography is art, the manifestos put forward on those that are forbidden and not forbidden, are only a few of the main headings we have struggled with and debated over. In the 19th century, as a brand-new tool of expression and as […]Read More ›
* Geniş Açı – Photography Art Magazine, Subject of the file: Self-portrait, September-October 2000 Issue: 13, pg. 70-71, Istanbul Before touching on the significance and importance for me of the self-portrait – or forward orientation – I should emphasize this point for those who do not know in which narrative language framework I use photography. By this I mean, if we are to assume that photography has a role in creating an object of art, I am not one of those who believe that art is the one-to-one production of objective reality and cannot be anything else. Instead of limiting the moment the photography presents technologically to the users, I have always aimed to view that moment, to make the photography that I have dreamed of as a fluid way of facing the other reality by combining the images of things that originate from the imagination, a dream or a subliminal impulse in the process, to create my own reality –just like in the theater-, and as Man Ray also said, to create an environment of freedom in which everything that is forbidden is made. During my photography adventure, which started and is continuing in line with this viewpoint, sometimes the […]Read More ›
* This writing, is partially published in “Siyah Beyaz“ daily newspaper dated 25 March 1996, In AD Art Dekor, İstanbul, October 1996, issue 43, pp. 220-224, In Sanat Çevresi, İstanbul, October 1996, issue 216, pp. 30-32, Milliyet Sanat, İstanbul, 15 October 1996, issue 394, pp. 35-37, Fotoğraf Magazine, İstanbul, December 1996 – January 1997, issue 10, pp. 100-103 and published in full, in İFSAK Photograph and Cinema Magazine, İstanbul, May 1997, issue 100, pp. 3-8, YAPI, Monthly Culture, Art and Architecture Magazine, YEM Publications, İstanbul, August 97, issue 189, pp. 121-126. Definition Of the two types that have lately it has been hypothesized to be separate from each other in so far as use in photographic structure and their perception it is as difficult to define experimental photography as it is easy to define Direct Photography or as it is more commonly known Documentary Photography. Because, the boundaries of experimental photography are still undetermined and one can establish a moment/experimental, documentary/experimental or narrative/experimental associations when it comes to experimental photography. So, what is experimental photography in this complex structure? We have to start with the question, what is experiment? In spoken language what we understand when we say experiment is changing […]Read More ›
* Milliyet Art Magazine, June 01 1989, Issue: 217 An Overview of the Educational System In this article, it would undoubtedly be very superficial to refer only to photography education. In order to be able to explain the structural causes behind the transformations in the education system at macro-level, the dilemmas in our education, in the process of the social change will have to be briefly examined. When the examination of the problem is so extensive, the issue is not limited to photography alone it spreads throughout the whole educational arena. Education aims to improve human talents to the extent of the possible, as well as to maintain the continuity of communities. In this process, the accumulation of culture is conveyed to the future. This age-old effort is still multidimensional today. Education is an issue still being considered and discussed today, that almost every society has mobilized in order to solve its problems. This mobilization is in the name of a better education, an increasingly healthier society and a higher humanity, it seems that it will always continue and must continue. In our country, the image of this international struggle aiming to reach a rational level is not heartwarming at […]Read More ›
* İFSAK, Photograph/Cinema Magazine, Issue: March 9, 1987 In recent years, no important steps have been taken to unite the work in line with the pursuits of new reality that has become popular along with the traditional photography understanding under a single concept, until today in our country. We have only seen individual outbursts because associations that gather wide masses, have not created a setting for serious debate on this topic. Unless this issue is opened for debate to the masses, it seems that uncertainty and chaos will continue, which in the very near future will further complicate the resolution of the matter by current concepts being added new ones. In the belief that the contradiction in concept chapter, I included afterwards as appendix to the paper I submitted to the 2nd Photography Symposium held by AFSAD (Ankara Photograph Artists Association) early January, will provide clarification to the subject in accordance with the concepts and will contribute to the creation of a debate setting, I deemed suitable to excerpt it fully hereto. Our friend Samih Rifat -we all know him from his writing- also joined the efforts to rationalize the new reality attempted to be explained with concepts based on […]Read More ›
