Sergi Küratör Bilgileri
Born in 1981, Ankara.
Undergraduate: Kocaeli University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Photography
Master's Degree: Kocaeli University, Public Relations and Promotion
Proficiency in Art: Kocaeli University, Plastic Arts
Assoc. Prof. participated in many national and international group events as well as 6 personal exhibitions. Dr. Haluk Arda Oskay continues his academic studies at Kocaeli University, Faculty of Communication, Visual Communication Design Department.
Nebil ÖZGENTÜRK
Journalist, writer, producer and director Nebil Özgentürk was born in Adana. He graduated from Ege University Faculty of Business Administration. Özgentürk, who started journalism as a reporter in the İzmir office of Günaydın Newspaper, continued his career in Sabah Newspaper in Istanbul. During his journalism work, he traveled throughout Anatolia, observed and wrote interviews with many political leaders and political events. He worked as a war correspondent in Romania, Abkhazia and during the Gulf War. We first heard of him as a journalist. He started writing a column in Sabah Newspaper in 1990, and his interviews made a splash. He was writing interesting portraits and interviews on the page reserved for him in Sabah Newspaper. Over the years, his columns were compiled into books called Bir Sip of Human, Unutulmayanlar, Years and Faces. The Bir Sip of Human documentaries, which started on ATV in 1998 and continued on CNN Türk, left their mark on an era. From Çetin Altan to Türkan Şoray, from Lefter to Cem Yılmaz, names that left their mark on Turkey's recent history attracted millions of people in front of the screen with their life stories and memories. Then, he signed the 1000-minute documentaries Turkey's Diary Book and Our Art's Diary Book as producer, director and copywriter. He made a program called Minutes from Life, which continued on the screens for 8 years, breaking a record in the field of culture and arts and bringing many awards. He prepared and directed the cultural and arts programs named World is a Play Stage presented by Kenan Işık and Güzel Şeyler presented by Ferhat Göçer. He prepared the documentary Testimonies from the Intellectual History of Istanbul. He made the documentary Centennial Faces, which includes the testimonies of people over 100 years old and their secrets of long life. He produced and directed the documentary Biz-Kültür Yolcuları, which sheds light on cultures that are about to disappear and Turkey's different beliefs and identities. He prepared the documentary Horse Love from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic. He prepared the documentary Diary Book of Our Woman and Diary Book of Migration to Germany, in which he describes the 57 years of immigration to Germany with striking stories and anecdotes. Nebil Özgentürk, who has written more than 20 books as an author, is also the owner of hundreds of awards in the fields of journalism, television, culture and arts.
Lütfi ÖZGÜNAYDIN
He was born in 1945 in Toybelen Village, Kemaliye District of Erzincan. He completed his primary and secondary education in Kemaliye. He graduated from Gümüşhane Primary Teacher Training School in 1962. He taught in various village schools.
He started working as a reporter at Hürriyet News Agency in 1969. He published a local newspaper called Gurbet (1982-2002) with his wife Songül Özgünaydın. While working as a reporter, he encountered photography and literature. In 1980, he received an award in the Abdi İpekçi Interview Competition of Milliyet Sanat magazine, and became known for the photographs and essays he published in magazines such as Milliyet Sanat and Sanat Olayı. He published articles and photographs in the photography magazine under the title "Photo Essay" for a long time (1995-2003). He wrote essays on his photographs in the "Language of Photography" column in the Gezi supplement of Cumhuriyet newspaper for four years. These were collected in the book The Language of Photography (2011). He held the exhibitions Döne Döne Van Lake (1998), Mardin (2000) and Erzincan (2002). These works were also published as an album. Mardin was exhibited in New York on February 4, 2009. He also opened the exhibition Istanbul (April 16, 2010) in New York. He brought this exhibition to art lovers in Florida. (May 1, 2010)
Yaşar Kemal-Çukurova carried out his study. The exhibition was exhibited in Istanbul, Adana, as well as Frank¬furt (September 22, 2008) and Paris (November 26, 2009). He opened the exhibition in Paris with Yaşar Kemal. The event attracted great attention in Paris. Çukurova Yaşar Kemal was his fourth photo essay book.
He wrote stories along with photographs. After his first story book, Baraj (1975), he collected his other stories in the books Taş Yolu (5th Edition, March, 2020) and Kuş Da Öldü (December, 2010). He also turned to children's literature with his story book titled Şelale Söğüt Ağaç (1985).
He published a total of 19 books of photography, stories and novels. His last photo essay book, Once Upon a Time in Kemaliye (Eğin) The Last Fifty Years (March, 2019), managed to become one of the important books of the period in which it was published.
Lütfi Özgünaydın's photographs were used in the book in which all four of Yaşar Kemal's La saga de Memed le mince (İnce Memed) novels, published by the Gallimard publishing house in France, were published together.
He held nearly a hundred exhibitions. He carried out many activities related to his birthplace, Kemaliye. He still continues to publish articles and photographs in magazines and newspapers.
After his highly acclaimed novels, Dön Zamanı (March, 2016) and Sevda Zamanı (March, 2019), which he wrote as novels under the title of "Eğin Trilogy", the trilogy is completed with the novel titled Gurbet Zamanı (2021).