“Born in Izmir in 1984. While studying Ceramics at Marmara University Fine Arts Department, she started working as a photographer’s assistant. After graduation she moved to Prague to study photography at FAMU. During her stay, she produced the ‘Slavia’ series. Her ‘Blue Flag’ series, depict the life and aesthetics of Izmir’s summer resort beaches, was featured in SALT’s Summer Homes: Claiming The Coast exhibition. Her ‘Auto-Orientalism’ series, documenting her native Turkey, exhibited in 'Istanbul Todays' group show, in Pera Museum. Her photos have been extensively featured in British Journal of Photography, New York Times, FOAM, 212 Magazine, Vice Magazine, Vogue, L’Officiel, Kinfolk and many other global fashion and arts magazines.

Her work mainly revolves around finding and curating a continuity of often whimsical images, exploring aesthetics of mainstream culture and documenting relationships between architecture, environment, social structures and the individual.”

She currently lives in Barcelona and works between Barcelona and Istanbul.


Education

2007
Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul 

2012 
FAMU, Department of Photography, Prague.

Publications

Art Unlimited - 2023

Foam Amsterdam with the series "Replica"  2022

British Journal Of Photography wiht the series "Auto Orientalism" 2022

Emergent Magazine with the project  "hurriyetemlakblues" 2022

Based Istanbul with the series "Slavia" 2017

212 Magazine with the series "Replica" 2016

Exhibitions

"212 Photography Festival", Gazhane, Istanbul 2023

"Zamane İstanbulları", Pera Museum, Istanbul 2022

"8th Day Of The Week" with Begum Khan, Lucca, Istanbul 2019

"Shore" with Ece Gökalp, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul 2016

"Summer Homes: Claiming the Coast", SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul 2014

Group show with UNKNOWN Art Collective, Art International, Istanbul 2013

"Wanderlust" Group Show, Gallery Torstrasse161, Berlin, Germany, 2013

"The Spirit of Prague", Group Show, Gallery Kavarna Lucerna, Prague, Czech Republic 2012

"Baroque Fortress", Group Show, Terezín, Beroun, Czech Republic 2012

Workshops

2014
Hellen Van Meene, Gapo, Istanbul

2012
Ken Grant, FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic

2011
Klavdij Sluban, FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic



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