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 Ghent, Belgium. 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.
My projects focus on collaborating with people in front of the camera, letting them communicate with the viewers, and working with them rather than creating just narratives about them.
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
