Photographs and articles by A. Cemal Ekin
Well, my last post failed. I hoped for some ideas coming from the visitors, narrowing the selection of photographs I presented, but none came. My presentation must have been confusing. Lesson learned. That said, I have continued the process and created the new folio. Several things changed, or new things got added to complete the …
I have created and sold many different folios. I like the small, individual prints as they provide a more intimate and tactile relationship with the photographs. I got the idea from Brooks Jensen, the gorgeously printed LensWork Magazine editor and an excellent photographer. I use ready-made folio covers and print the title to show in …
A few posts ago, I wrote about a wonderful experience flying over the Great Salt Lake and presented the contents of Folio 1. Instead of going in sequential order, I decided to present the last folio in this collection, Folio 8 | The Human Touch Collection after the first. As you will read in the …
I am getting close to finishing this project. This folio is about the limits of everything. Water meets land or air with a boundary, colors change creating another boundary, and various shapes are formed or erased by their boundaries being there or becoming diffuse. The ecosystem of the Great Salt Lake is so diverse with …
A new addition to the Great Salt Lake folio series is the Folio 6 | The Spiral Jetty Collection. The Spiral Jetty is one of the best-known earthwork or land art by Robert Smithson. He conceived the idea and constructed the land art using basalt rocks available on site. Robert Smithson finished the jetty a …
This is the final installment of the series on the Great Salt Lake. Vegetation around and in the Great Salt Lake does not impress the viewer with lush foliage or colorful flowers. However, the halophiles require high salinity and create interesting patterns against the colors of the lake. Mostly marshes around the periphery and algae …
In the continuing series of Great Salt Lake folios, I now jump to somewhere in the middle, Folio 4 | The Fields of Color Collection. Minerals and evaporation in the Great Salt Lake work like the palette and the brush of an artist to create an amazing range of colors and abstract “art,” nature’s painting …
Looking down at the Great Salt Lake is a surreal experience, not only do the colors change unexpectedly but also the surface-depth-bottom relations present visual riddles. There I was in the helicopter, looking down at a reddish-orange, or orangish-red water not being able to figure out what lied on the surface and where the bottom …
Over the Great Salt Lake The Found Patterns Folio is the new addition to the GSL Folio series. With eight photographs, it presents the patterns created by nature and by human touch. Nature’s patterns with a palette of minerals and evaporation challenge the canvas of most painters both in structure and artistry. Human touch, on …
The colorful Great Salt Lake A couple of years ago, I received a very special gift for my 65th birthday from my wife and daughter: a helicopter tour to the Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake. The trip was extraordinary for several reasons. First, it was my first chopper flight, a tiny one at …
I have created a folio containing 12 photographs taken from the unique (and generally off-limits) vantage point of the dome of Hagia Sophia. They are printed photographically on metallic paper, which brings out the reflective qualities of gold extremely well. The folio opens with a title page, includes a certificate of authenticity, and continues with …
I have issued a folio of photographs, limited to a total of 12 copies. The photographs are selected from a series that I took on the Kozak Plateau, thus the name of the folio. Kozak Plateau Kozak Plateau is in the Aegean region of Turkey and not far from the historic Mt. Ida. The main …
