New York Times Photographs, 2008-2017
Turkey Moves to Regain Control, 2016
Assimilation in Germany, 2015
A Conflicted Mission in Congo, 2009
Guarding an Ethnic Fault Line in Iraq, 2010
Twisters to the East, Fires to the West, 2009
Risky Work in Indonesia’s Gold Field, 2014
Luck Trumps Death, 2010
Installation view of New York Times Photographs 2008-2017 from Now You’re Far Away at Galerist (Istanbul), 2017.
Installation view of New York Times Photographs 2008-2017 from Now You’re Far Away at Galerist (Istanbul), 2017.
Installation view of New York Times Photographs 2008-2017 from Now You’re Far Away at Galerist (Istanbul), 2017.
The New York Times often featured only one image on its cover. In a similar vein, their website features slide shows, which usually consist of 10-12 images, summarizing a headline (e.g. Women of Afghanistan). I first selected headlines which related to human yet generalized suffering. I then took these series of images and, without editing any out, I collapsed them together to create a single image—each headline corresponds to one image. This series is an examination of the visual patterns that emerge when the process is repeated many times.
I realized that my making these images had become more than a study of patterns as an image-maker, and instead, repeated the problematic image-making that I was attempting to critically engage with. I stopped working on this series in 2017.
