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Turkey

My enthusiasm for photography intensified during my university education. There were two main drivers then: A photography course I frequented in Istanbul, and my membership of the Photography Club at the university. But my experience in black & white was proved to be short-lived, as I was quickly seduced by the vivid world of color slides.

For years, I’ve organized slide shows for my close entourage and more recently, I began sharing my pictures on the web thru critique sites such as Fotokritik and PhotoSIG. My encounter with the digital world is rather recent though, and Photoshop looks still Chinese to me.

You may observe a historical framework in my pictures: that’s rather expected from someone who inherited the DNAs of a family of historians. I always try to bring forward what seems interesting or striking to me, often spending efforts to build bridges between various periods and cultures. A professional tour guide career I developed during my higher education seems to be paying-off along the way.

Apart from photography, I have another forthcoming zeal: traveling. But they have been so inter-connected in the past 20 years that, I frankly don’t know whether I travel to take pictures, or vice versa.

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