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Portraits Of İstanbul

An interview with Ali Taptik

Michael Borowski

"My interest in photography started very early. When I was 14, I started taking pictures. I decided to study architecture because there weren’t any photography schools; I mean good photography schools, present at that time. Architecture seemed to be a more interesting choice in its connection to art and theory, and in the end I manipulated my curriculum in a way that I didn’t take many classes in structure or building details but I took critical theory or art history." (...) "In my 2nd year I was invited to a masterclass in Stockholm, a very intensive course. Before then I wasn’t sure about being a professional photographer but with that course I decided that that’s what I wanted. I finished my studies anyway because I liked studying architecture more than being an architect. Interestingly, in Turkey, very good photographers are often architects." more...

interview

An Interview With Banu Cennetoğlu

Simge Peker

I went to visit Banu Cennetoğlu in her Artist Book Project Space; BAS… I thought I was going to interview her about ’15 Scary Asian Men’ work. She has got surprised about it. Certainly it was the time to talk about her most recent work; the Venice Biennale Project ‘The Catalog’. My aim was to discuss more about the role of photography and her style of documentation. But in the end of our talk we were at a far away point, which was much more exciting. Banu Cennetoğlu enlightened me about the actualization, materialization and monumentalization of photography. more...