Approximately there are about 20.000 - 80.000 Turks of African descent living in Muğla, Ula, Köyceğiz, Arcata, and Dalaman regions. Black people have for long culturally adapted Turkish society, and as a consequence, there is almost nothing that indicates an African heritage in a cultural sense. As a result of the search for their roots, activists revived certain ancestral ceremonies and African traditions. And the search goes on.
I am a photographer based in Berlin, Germany. I was born 1993 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany. I studied Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at HS Hanover and Photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent.
Due to my family's migration history, I mainly deal with diaspora, belonging, and identity in my work. For each project, I look for a suitable visual language and appropriate, respectful forms of representation.
Feel free to say hello at any time.
clients / published
ZEIT ONLINE, STERN Magazin, stern.de, Focus, Glamour, VICE, GoMagazin, epd-Bild, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Staatstheater Hannover, cosmopop, Literarischer Salon, Hannover 2025, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gewebetransplantation (DGFG), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, hMtM Hannover
exhibitions / shows (group)
2020 »Fragments from Now« Kunsthaus Dresden
2022 »Von den Spuren Einer Suche« GAF Eisfabrik, Hannover
2022 »Gewebespende erleben« Hannah-Arendt-Platz, Hannover
2020 Screening Exhibition at photo is:real, Tel Aviv
2020 »Fragments from Now« Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
2019 »Fragments from Now« Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2019 »Kultur.Erben« Evangelische Jugendkirche, München
education
2017 - 2022 Bachelor in Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography, University of Applied Sciences and
Arts Hannover
2020 - 2021 Bachelor's Programme in Photography,
Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent
2018 - 2019 Assistant at Galerie für Fotografie Hannover (GAF)
2020 Intern as photographer/videographer at epd-bild
2022 - today Art Buyer Trainee at C3 Creative Code and Content