My path to this medium wasn’t traditional; I studied Italian Literature at Istanbul University and only discovered photography at the age of 28. That background continues to shape how I construct images. I approach photography through story, structure, absence, and return, allowing each project to develop through observation rather than staging.

My personal work explores the psychogeography of Istanbul. I am interested in how the city holds memory, pressure, transformation, and loss, and how intimate experience becomes embedded within the landscape. Working through a documentarian approach, I use unstaged images, colour, and quiet tension to examine the relationship between place and lived experience.

In 2022, Onagöre published my debut photobook, Şehir Fikri (Notion of a City), an eerie portrayal of Istanbul marked by the absence of people, animals, and language. Inspired by Georges Perec’s La Disparition (A Void, 1969), the book considers the city through what is withheld.

My photographs have been featured in Foam Magazine and the British Journal of Photography, and exhibited at Les Rencontres d’Arles, Pera Museum, and Mudec. Alongside my personal projects, I work as a documentary photographer, with work published in The New York Times, Financial Times, and Der Spiegel.