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100th Anniversary…

The Republic of Turkiye, the 17th Turkish State established in the last 5000 years, is 100 years old today. A young Republic founded a century ago, among the ruins of a huge empire, with blood, labor, sweat, and great foresight and leadership! What a big and important day today is. Today is the most important holiday for everyone who feels as a child of this Republic.

As the TFSF Board of Directors, the "Republic Exhibition" we organized in this special year, which we have been approaching step by step every year for the last four years, has been concluded. As you know, the only reward of this Prestige exhibition for those who are devoted to photography, whether amateur or professional, is the honor of being selected among as many photographs as the age of our Republic. On behalf of the TFSF management, I wholeheartedly congratulate the 100 people whose photographs were selected this year.

This year, a total of 624 people, 218 women and 406 men, from our 61 provincial centers and citizens living abroad, participated with 1222 photographs. We thank them. From this participation, 100 photographs special for this year were selected by our valuable photographers, who will be members of the selection committee only once in this exhibition, in accordance with our rules. On behalf of the board of directors, I would like to thank Miktad BESNİ, Nafia ÖZDEMİR HANYALOĞLU and Mustafa Bülent PİRİNÇCİ for this selection and their efforts.

In these exhibitions, as the Management of the Turkish Federation of Photographic Arts, we aimed to record the successful works in the art of photography in Turkiye during these special years of our Republic and to create a visual memory by recording today's photography. We aimed to leave documents to the Second Century.

These exhibitions, which I had the honor of curating for the fourth time as TFSF President, are published permanently in the TFSF Virtual Gallery, and the exhibition photographs of the last three years were published and delivered to the participants. We will work to publish the photographs selected for this year's exhibition.

On behalf of the Management of the Turkish Photographic Art Federation, we once again express our gratitude to the founders of our Republic, especially Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the greatest leader of the last centuries, who provided us with this freedom, and whose value we appreciate more and more each day, to art and its artists, and we bow respectfully before them.

Dr. Sefa ULUKAN

TFSF Chairman of the Board

Exhibition Curator

29 October 2023