I prefer to use flash as I think using your artificial light adds a new form to candid street photography
Being a businesswoman who has been a consultant and trainer on executive development for a long time, it has only been five years that I have been involved in taking photographs. Nonetheless, photography has become my best occupation ever since. Trained in high-level photography, street and studio photography; I’ve participated in various exhibitions and projects worldwide, acted as a jury and an administrator in a number of prominent photography groups and had interviews with photography magazines and groups on various platforms.
For the last two years, I have been taking candid street photography with an external flash, trying to capture the instant feelings and gestures of people on the streets. As the media has lately been dominated by the so-called “selfie culture” filtering the photos of the ordinary people to appear as “the most” beautiful, perfect and desirable; candid street photography tends to act as a natural reflector of the lives of the people on the streets. The candid photographer tries to capture the people in their daily lives with no pre-posed appearances, no posed expressions and no set-up scene… I prefer to use flash as I think using your artificial light adds a new form to candid street photography.
Besides the candid; I take photos documenting the urban transformation in various districts of Istanbul. I also like to take conceptual photographs that trigger a current of thought on the fundamental theme of ontology as I believe the philosophy behind existentialism is one of our eternal discussions
I believe photography is about the freedom in expressing ourselves with our unique points of view; with the decision moment reflecting the transcendent aesthetics; the sensory perception of the photographer on that very moment of being. Though, lately, I have been intrigued with what I believe as a paradox in the nature of photography itself. It seems to act as a long-lasting way of communicating with new generations, leaving a legacy for documentation, passing the emotions of the era, giving clues on political approaches and living styles through the eyes of various witnesses of those times, shortly handing down the “zeitgeist” to the next generations. However, the photographers should keep in mind that the moment they capture a scene; they imprison it in their own point of reflection, killing the moment of truth right over there whereas the ongoing life plays another game. And the photograph becomes a simulacrum at the end…
She participates with two photographs at Yunus Emre Institute - "Sefarad - Collective Art Exhibition of Turkish Separad Artists", on June 1, 2023 in Frankfurt am Main - Römerhallen at 18.30, Curator Terry Katalan
I take photos documenting the urban transformation in various districts of Istanbul.