'Following authenticity in life through the medium of a lens'.
Photography found me when I first held my father’s camera at the age of twelve. In the quiet of a small darkroom, I discovered the alchemy of light and memory, watching images slowly appear in silence. Years later, during a solo backpacking journey across South Asia in 2016, I picked up a digital camera again—this time not just to see the world, but to understand myself within it. That journey became a search for meaning, for self-expression, for presence. I travelled through six countries alone, guided only by intuition and the companionship of my camera. After years of pause, photography became the language through which I reconnected with myself. Since then, I’ve been walking my path—one frame, one breath, one encounter at a time.
Photography allows me to see the world from new perspectives and to understand it on a deeper, more intuitive level. Drawing from my background in psychology, I use the camera as a mirror—one that reflects my inner world through the faces, places, and stories I encounter. My curiosity about people, cultures, and the ways geography shapes who we become has carried me across the world with my camera in hand.
Through learning about others, I find freedom from cultural boundaries and inherited beliefs, slowly uncovering my most authentic self beyond social norms and expectations. Photography is my bridge to the world—the purest language I know for expressing what I feel and who I am.
BIO
She was born in Bursa, Turkey, in 1980. She completed her Bachelor of Business Administration in Turkey, followed by a Bachelor of Psychology and a Master of Organisational Psychology in London, England.
She began taking photographs with her father's camera when she was 12 years old and took her first serious step into the world of photography by enrolling in the IFSAK Foundations of Photography training in 1999. Living in different parts of the world and travelling to countless countries, she sought ways to express her cross-cultural experiences through the language of photography.
She completed the Professional Photography Program at Spéos Photo Video CGI school in Paris in 2022. Subsequently, she graduated from the Photography and Camera Operation Diploma Program at Anadolu University in Turkey.
In her work, which centres on the relationship between psychology and photography, she explores inner narratives about journeys of identity and self. Since 2021, she has been working on a long-term photography project that questions the ‘essence of womanhood’ and continues to work as an advertising photographer at the studio she founded.
EXHIBITIONS / Awards
14th Bursa International Photography Festival, FotoFest - Open Call - Urban Defiance - 6 Photos