Dad, Me, and the Acrylic Splash on my Shirt
Wow! Its been months since my last post. Finally I’m back from the army. I wish I had the opportunity to use my camera there. Naturally it was strictly forbidden. It was so funny to witness a bunch of grown up men gather, -in the name of serving the country- form an artificial reign, role play with that ridiculous attitude of no earthly use and call this military. Not to bore you with these endless discussions, it was a total waste of time.
Starting with the pre-army shots. I feel like its been ages since those days. I really don’t remember what the topic was. so I just submit them more or less in chronological order. Looks like a weekend visit to Ankara.
Is that Çınar?
He was preparing for the exhibition at Milli Reasurans Art Gallery
Which I missed, being under arms
The bathroom of the studio
Collecting strange closets from all over the world
He uses power wash as a part of the process
Extending his playground
Dad, me, and the acrylic splash on my shirt
Everything is illuminated! I was there to make a preliminary photo shoot of the rock band Cicibebe for their upcoming album, Last Nail in the Coffin
Some familiar faces of the band, Erdem from high school
And uni classmate Kıvanç, look how fragile he is
Engin
A focal length of 35mm can capture unwanted details
After years of gigging in Ankara pubs, they finally end up with an album. The interesting part is that the CD they released was empty so one can download and burn the MP3s in it. Thus they made a remarkable impact on the music community, stating that there’s no difference left between a music CD and an empty CD.
Back to İstanbul. I’m seriously planning to start a series of kitchens in the night. Çiğdem’s
Title of a poem in a street writing.. Something you can expect from Cihangir
On the set of Tadelle commercial.. I was responsible for taking some reference photos and preparing the HDR image to be used in visual effects.
Where I met this nice Mr.
Director of photographer Tobias Hochstein from Israel. He was there for three days, setting up a unique look for the commercial. He noticed my Leica, took out his Leica MP and we had two days of nice chat. Hope to see you again in Turkey, mate!
The muscle guy was going to put a baby to sleep in the shot. They bring him a fake one for rehearsal
Toby and the director, Özer Feyzioğlu
The outside shootings
Van Herpen was passing by..
Guy taking notes about each take
We made an agreement with Erkan and Sertaç, to visit all of the big stadiums in İstanbul before I leave for the army. It was a good excuse for me to see Arsenal in the flesh.
No reason to sit
Ramsey scores. Poor Sertaç
Desperately trying to spend the last few days with the beloved ones, Eskişehir
Dad wearing Çınar’s trapper hat
Having some fun in the car
Watching Metoroporisu
I have no idea where this photo came out of, should be from three or four rolls earlier, sister making up
Dad and Amelie Edgü working on the catalogue of the exhibition, Milli Reasürans Art Gallery
and that was my last shot before the 6-month separation.
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May 2009. I’m back
I miss the escalators
We gave a visit to Umut’s new apartmen with Çiğdem
Looking for his no-name cat
Still looking..
Gotcha!
Eskişehir.. Sister at her office
Soo grown up Çınar at their new place
Looks like he became obsessed with Power Rangers while I was away
Quality time
Desperately thinking
After putting him to sleep,
We stopped by at the Glass Department
Dealing with some Erasmus students
Going through some students’ assignments. Sis was advising him to keep it for the end of year exhibition, off the record
back home. Çınar and sis playing doctor-patient
Next day, watching Spiderman together
Çınar getting upset just before I leave. I doubt it’s because he’s not on the train, though
Byee!
August 2009, Istanbul
