Photography and Writing by A. Cemal Ekin
These portfolios include collections that have been exhibited, published in a magazine, or tied to a ballet.
International Lens Magazine has published its latest issue with the theme “color.” I had submitted a collection of photographs from the Great Salt Lake, The Fields of Color, and they were accepted for publication. This issue also marks their three-year anniversary and looks back into the past issues. It has rich content and is a …
Several years back, I photographed Greta Hodginkson, a Providence-born dancer during the season-opening program of the Festival Ballet Providence. It was a highly dynamic performance during which she owned the stage, moving from point to point. A collection of photographs from that program has just been published in the International Lens Magazine issue #47 with …
The Festival Ballet Providence ballerina Vilia Putrius and I started a project early in 2013 to photograph 12 dancers acting the part from 12 ballets in settings that go along with the storylines. Later, I named the collection Ballet Off Stage and the photographs were shown in an exhibit at the Festival Ballet Providence studios as …
I had the privilege of having two special visits to the largest and one of the smallest churches in Istanbul. Built more than a millennium apart, the two churches allowed me to experience the truly magnificent space and works in Hagia Sophia and the jewel-like presence of Panagia Isodion. My interest in these sacred spaces …
I had the extraordinary privilege to view the Great Church, Hagia Sophia, from the vantage point of its dome. Being so close to the original work and inside the dome was truly thrilling. As I touched the center of the dome and its ceiling, the gold mosaics in and around the dome windows, I felt …
These photographs were on exhibit in 2004 with the title On Seeing and the following artist’s statement: On Seeing Photography brings the camera and the subject intimately close, the photographer becoming the tool and voyeur of this intimate relationship. What I see is not what the camera records. While the camera is a tool for …
