2025 yılında başladığım İnsan Benzeri İnsan* belgesel fotoğraf serisi, katılımcıların duygusal olarak önemli anıları, kişisel hikayeleri veya paylaşmak istedikleri konuları anlatırken ortaya çıkan mikro-mimik ifadelerini yakalamayı amaçlıyor. Her portre, anlatım sırasında doğrudan göz temasıyla çekiliyor ve anlık belirip kaybolan ifadelerin ortaya çıkmasına olanak tanıyor. Bu sayede paylaştığımız ifadelerdeki benzerlikleri gözlemleyebiliyoruz.
*İnsanların ilk bakışta göründüklerinden daha çok birbirlerine benzediklerini ifade eden bir Türkçe deyimdir.
Şimdiden katılan ve katılacak olan herkese teşekkürler 🖇️🫂
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Initiated in 2025, İnsan İnsana Benzer* documentary
photography series that explores the fleeting facial expressions that emerge as individuals recount emotionally significant memories, intimate stories or topics they wish to share. Each portrait is captured through direct eye contact during narration, allowing subtle micro-expressions to surface.
*It is a Turkish idiom meaning that people are often more similar to each other than they appear at first glance.
Thank you already who’s been a part of it and will be 🖇️🫂
From Istanbul, direct ticket to Rome, don't stay too long, catch the bus, it is very cold, to Lecce, where I've no idea.
Here is mixed moments of my 6 week volunteering in Lecce. My initial intention there with the students was to discuss UN's 2030 goals as a part of my @aiesecitalia project. Within weeks, we formed a much deeper and more personal bond. Perhaps because I remembered myself so well in middle school, maybe I am still like in the middle school, they saw themselves in me. They wrote me letters, drew pictures, listen, trust, care. I became their "maestro" and "amore." I loved them deeply, and they loved me deeply in return despite coming from completely different culture and language. "Grazie" for everything Puglia, protect my mediterranean kids forever!
I drag my home with me, not as a memory, like a stone, heavy like a massive stone embedded deep beneath my skin. It lives in my pulse, in my accent, in the spaces between my breaths. Every morning when I wake up, I remember. I remember who they are. I remember what they have done. It is no longer possible to move through life boldly anymore.
A self-portrait with sentimentality, Lecce, March 2026.
okulun son günü için hazırlandı, ilk kravatıydı. taramamıştı saçlarını, hiç taramazdı. fotoğrafını yalnızca benim çekmeme izin verirdi. öptüm alnından.
insan insana benzer, June 2025.
