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Home » Project » Faces & Places From Turkey, II

Faces & Places From Turkey, II

October 27, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin
Faces and Places from Turkey, Bench Sitters, Adana c 1981

My exhibit titled “Faces & Places from Turkey, II” was on display at the Mathewson Street United Methodist Church in Providence, RI, between July 1- July 30, 2008. The following is the collection that I presented. You can view the collections included in prior exhibits/folios by clicking on the gallery icon on the navigation bar. It looks like a small grid on the left edge.

One mishap was that someone accidentally took my guest book and I lost all the comments from my guests and friends. I read some of them with great enjoyment during my spare time on gallery night. If you care to write your comment here, I will greatly appreciate it.

Faces and Places from Turkey Statement

This collection of photographs presents a continuation of an earlier exhibit. Faces & Places From Turkey, II is a richer collection of images showing faces and places that a visitor will not likely encounter during their visit to Turkey. These photographs differ from the iconic photographs of Turkey which feature the familiar skylines, familiar faces, and stereotypical lifestyles.

I am interested in photography that shares scenes as I perceive them at the time of taking the picture. “Seeing” and “photographing” are two related but very different activities. Whereas seeing is mostly mental, photographing is mostly mechanical. Although I “photograph” what I “see,” the actual experience of either differ from one another in significant ways.

In that line of thinking, I hope that what you “see” will come close to what I intended to show, rather than remaining at the level of what the camera recorded, and that you will choose to see rather than to look.

July 6, 2008

Exhibit Photographs

These are the photographs from the exhibit that showed in the Mathewson Street United Methodist Church in Providence. The exhibit statement is above, and here is a brief catalog with a description of each photograph. There is plenty to see in the collection.

Istanbul Beneath My Wings 2003
Wisteria on Old House, Istanbul 1996
Magnets on the door of the Spice Market, Istanbul 1996
Storm Over Cappadocia 2003
Rejects, Avanos 2003
Streets Of Safranbolu 2005
Sunrise Over Safranbolu 2005
Cinci Han, Safranbolu 2005
Old Man, Adana c 1981
Man & His Horse, Adana 2003
Bench Sitters, Adana c 1981
Elusive Smile, Adana c 1981
Blue Door, Ayvalik c 1996
Minimalist Vendor, Ayvalik 2003
Vendor's Children, Ayvalik 2005
Happy Girl of Ayvalik 2005
Old Olive Tree, 2 Ayvalik 2005
Olive Tree By The Sea,, 2 , Ayvalik 2007
Olive Tree By The Sea, Ayvalik 2007
Kozak Plateau, 6 2003
Kozak Plateau, 5 2003
Kozak Plateau, 9 2003
Kozak Plateau, 10 2003
Our Daily Bread, Kinik 2003
Merchants, Tire
Chickens For Sale, Tire 2003
Door To Nowhere, Tire 2003
Yes It's for Sale, Tire 2003
Dusk, Şirince 2003

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