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Lives in İzmir, Turkey. Co-founder of Mahzen Photos photography collective. Took part in many national and international photography festivals and exhibitions.

He is making photographs in the field of documentary photography as well as taking photographs in the field of street photography with the idea that photography has an important power in terms of witnessing time and forming social consciousness.

He organizes photography workshops for children and he is an instructor in various photography workshops. He is one of the founders of the photography art workshop called “No 238” in İzmir.


Festivals and Exhibitions

- Polyphony International Photography Festival 2020 - Calcutta, India / His series of documentary photographs took place among the best ten works and thus in the exhibition
- “Daire” Visiting Artist Program 2020 - Mersin, Turkey / He participated as a visiting artist. Presentation, Talk, Exhibition
- Akçabat Photography Festival 2018 – Presentation, Interview, Workshop Trainer
- Fethiye Photography Festival 2016 – Presentation, Interview, Workshop Trainer
- İFSAK 24th İstanbul Photography Days (1-30 November 2016)
- 2nd International Malatya Photo Camp 2016 – Workshop
- “City Diaries” – Exhibition / İstanbul Photography Gallery - 2016
- International Diyarbakır Photography Festival 2015- Exhibition
- International Antalya Press Photography Festival “Photo Antalya” 2015 – Exhibition
- Ege University International EgeArt Art Days 2015- Exhibition
- Kuşadası Photography Festival 2015- Exhibition
- Adana Altın Koza Art Festival, 2015 / Demonstration Grand prize at the 13th Frame National Photography Show Competition under the festival.
- 2015 Sony World Photography Organization – Exhibition / London
- “After Syria” / which has been opened in İzmir French Culture Center with an interview and a multimedia presentation. His individual exhibition has been opened within İstanbul Photography Festival (Foto İstanbul) / 2015
- İstanbul Documentary Photography Days 2015 - “Speaker at the panel “Method Discussion in Documentary Photography”
- İstanbul Documentary Photography Days 2015 – Demonstration
- Bursa Photography Festival “Bursafotofest” 2015 – Demonstration
- İstanbul Documentary Photography Days 2014 - Demonstration
- International Image Festival FINI 2014/ Mexico- Exhibition – His photographs, selected among the top 10 best portfolio projects of the festival, were exhibited in different countries throughout the year on the Latin American continent
- Bursa Photography Festival “Bursafotofest” 2014 – Exhibition
- “Aquadis” / which has been opened in İzmir French Culture Center with a multimedia presentation / 2014
- “Reş” / which has been opened in İzmir French Culture Center with a multimedia presentation / 2013
- “Kadifekale Urban Transformation” which has been opened in Ege University 50. Yıl Köşkü Art Gallery / 2013

Project Coordinator & Workshop Trainer

- Spaces Of Culture; “Atelier 238 Project” / Project Coordinator – İzmir / 2019
- “Uphill Agora” Documentary Photograhy Exhibition / K2 Contemporary Art Center– İzmir / 2019
- “Locality” Street Photography Workshop Exhibition- İzmir / 2018
- “Independence Door” Tepekule Congress Center – İzmir / 2018
- “Human Landscapes from My Country”, Uğur Mumcu Culture Center İzmir / 2018
- “New Life in Basmane” Türkan Saylan Culture Center-İzmir 2017
- “I Took This, 821. - “Street” Türkan Saylan Culture Center - İzmir 2016 / Halka Art Gallery, İtsanbul / 2017
- “Antique Cities from Photographer Children” İzmir Art Gallery / 2016
- “Justice Behind the Shadows of Towers” Türkan Saylan Culture Center – İzmir / 2016
- ”What is Living Together” Türkan Saylan Culture Center İzmir 2015 / International Troai Festival Çanakkale 2015