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DEAD SLEEPY
How often are we in a surrounding and actively pay attention to how it makes us feel? What does the place emote and does that make a difference to ourselves?…
Non-Hospital Scenes (NHS)
Street photography is not a genre that I often associate myself with, and despite the fact that David Bate writes about genres as “not fixed, they are mutable. Genres are…
Where is Narcissus?
Spending school holidays in my grandparent’s country house meant that each time there would be a different product waiting to be sold, occupying one of the rooms. The excitement of…
De-Brutalising Barbican
Ever since I modelled in a live installation piece in Barbican by Reza Aramesh in late 2007 for the “Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now” show, the architecture…
TEMPORAL CRUMBS
Do you want to meet me? Do you want to see my day-to-day thoughts, the fluctuations of my emotions? Do you want to penetrate my mind? Visual diaries have been…
Zhe Chen- Bees No 201, 2010
My Fictional Exhibition: CHINA NOW
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” This is a quote from Oscar Wilde. Reading this I can…
Gezi Park
Several months ago I published a mini series of images that was inspired by the summer riots of Istanbul- resISTANBUL. Just over a year after I wanted to share the…
Ara Güler: The Man Who Shot Istanbul
The first time I came across the name Ara, literally meaning in-between, was in Istanbul. Ara Cafe sits snuggled between a busy bustling high street and a quiet narrow street…
Puppy Between Feet
I have seen this photograph in Paris Photo fair as part of London-based Michael Hoppen Gallery’s exhibition. The photograph really stood out as it was placed next to the Chloe…