Issue #21

Serkan Taycan On Photography with Yusuf Sevinçli

Serkan Taycan and Yusuf Sevinçli had a conversation on various subjects from his approach to photography, and from the notion of "flaneur" to his latest works.

Desislava Şenay Martinova What Have You Done with d’Agata?

The workshop I was invited to was Studio Vortex which was led by Antoine d'Agata, a photographer who managed to live an unaltered life no matter where he has been to, who never cares about anything bu

Ece Gökalp Why do Family Photos Outgrow the Frames?

Family photos and on the manipulation of photographs...

Şener Soysal New Age Production, New Age Sharing, New Age Consumption

I still hesitate to write about the ever-changing digital period in which we live, where we own and make use of digital products (But don’t hesitate to read this essay with such an introduction). It s

Merve Ünsal 3P: Porn, Paranoia, Politics, III. Essay

When I was working on the present essay, the third part of a series, Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov was killed by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, the police officer of Ankara Riot Police, in an exhibition ope

Alper Yıldırım, Mert Acar Last 2 Exhibitions in Torun: Lendemain Demain & Flashers On

Torun, one of Ankara’s art initiatives we follow with pleasure, ended its mission as a host for artists who want to make independent exhibitions in November 2016. By achieving to establish a much-need

Cansu Yıldıran Dispossessed

Cansu Yıldıran’s project “Dispossessed” departs from her own experience as a woman from Black Sea, as a result of her facing the truth that women are not allowed to be a landholder in the plateaus of

Anastasia Soboleva Match a Match

Anastasia Soboleva’s project “Match a Match” created during Alejandro Chaskielberg’s “Documentary Experiments” workshop in ISSP 2016, presents an extremely personal and warm perspective to an objectiv

Elif Yalım 000_0_01

When Elif Yalım sent her photographs to Orta Format, we asked her to describe her works in more detail; and she told about poetry, music and movies rather than her photographs. Although this attitude

Simon Brugner Arsenic Eaters

Arsenic Eaters is Simon Brugner’s project through which he traces the consumption of arsenic in Austria, a practice that lasted till the first half of the 20th century.