'Following authenticity in life through the medium of a lens'.
I have been passionate about photography since I first held my father’s camera when I was about 12 years old. I used to have a small dark room where I immersed myself in developing photos. Later, I picked up digital photography in 2016 during my backpacking trip around South Asia. That trip was about finding who I was and my self-expression in this life. I travelled to six countries alone, accompanied by my camera, with no real plan but some intentions. After a long break from shooting, I finally connected with myself via photography, and I have been walking on my path with my camera since.
Photography has been helping me look at the world from a different perspective and understand it on a deeper level. Utilising my psychology education, photography enables me to find my reflection in the world. My curiosity about human beings, other cultures, and how geography shapes our species led me to travel the world with my camera.
Learning about others frees me from cultural rules and beliefs and encourages me to find my authentic self beyond social norms and expectations. Photography is the bridge that connects me to the world and the purest way to express my feelings.
BIO
Burcu combines psychology with photography to focus on telling the stories of identity.
Born in Bursa, Turkey in 1980, Burcu completed the Bachelor of Business Administration in Turkey, and Bachelor of Psychology and Master of Organisational Psychology in London, England.
Burcu started taking photographs with her father's camera when she was 12 years old and continued that with the Ifsak Foundations of Photography training in 1999. While travelling worldwide, she discovered and photographed people from different cultures and lifestyles. She completed the Professional Photography Program at Spéos Photo Video CGI school in Paris and graduated from the Photography and Camera Operation Diploma Program at Anadolu University in Turkey.
Since 2021, she's been working on a portrait photography project exploring the essence of women. She also does still life, product and portraits at her photography studio, Studio Flâneur.
EXHIBITIONS / Awards
14th Bursa International Photography Festival, FotoFest - Open Call - Urban Defiance - 6 Photos