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Photograph by Begüm Sarı

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Photograph by Doruk Atay

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Here is our new issue!!

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“Ütopyalar Güzeldir”

The Void ekibi olarak DDA (Denge Denetleme Ağı) tarafından gerçekleştirilen, “Ütopya Atölyesi”ne katıldık. Mekanlar üzerinden hayallerimizi paylaştık ve ütopyalar kurduk. Daha fazlasını bu ayki sayımızda bulabilirsiniz.

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Photograph by Batuhan Önder

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An Article About Photography and Underwater Photography Contest of 2016

Photography has always been a stunning and interesting subject which is at least once been spotlighted for some time of our lives, became a lifelong passion and addiction for most of us and professionalized by a few of us who can capture the world in a very distinctive and original way. As an amateur I strongly believe that what makes a fantastic photograph is not only about the equipments but more about seeing, more about vision and more about envision, call it as you wish.

As a beginner I was afraid to make changes with the shooting settings and play with some other basic controls like lightening and focusing etc. until I have heartily been stumped by the great effect of modifications in some basic settings. Rather than being stuck in the rules, make your own rules. Thats what makes you an admirable photographer!

What does photography mean to me? I guess apart from the ability of framing the world that you have conceived in your mind, it is about memories that you make last. It is about the people you have encountered and the places you have spent weeks on the way just to photograph and the cultures, languages and all that you haven’t realized about the world until that specific moment. All that you haven’t realized? This was all the voice that I have heard in my mind while I was looking for the submitted photographs for the Underwater Photography Contest. They are all one of a kind with their focus, different lightening conditions and lenses and shows us the underwater world from the visions of the photographer with unique abilities of seeing the world and photographing all those things that you haven’t realized.

Nilay Karaköy

Take a look at the website (http://underwaterphotographeroftheyear.com) of the competition for more photographs and winners.

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Phorograph by Batuhan Önder

Bu fotoğrafı Aralık 2014'te üniversitemizin fotoğrafçılık ekibiyle çıktığımız Ankara Kalesi gezisinde Roma Hamamı'nda çekmiştim. Ön plandaki harabe ve arka plandaki vinç ve şehir görüntüsü bana geleceği sürekli eskinin üzerine inşa ettiğimizi hatırlatıyor. Bazen eski, yeniyi kenardan izlerken, bazen de tamamen yok edilip üzerine yapılıyor. Düşünmek lazım; yerden kazanmak için geçmişi yıkmak mı, yoksa daha azıyla yetinip geçmişe sahip çıkmak mı daha akıllıca?

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Zaria Forman is an extraordinary artist who has fascinating pieces of hyperrealist paintings. Her art impresses the audience by its moving and dramatic effects, and what impresses me more is the fact that she has done all her painting by her fingers and smudging it. Her photo realistic art is also a complex process rather than creating a simple piece of art; she adds her observations to dramatic sense of nature, a virtual perspective of life.

The source of inspiration in her work relied on the fact that she spent her childhood travelling the world's most remote landscapes with her mother, who is a fine art photographer. That is what motivates her, the world's crucial state, the loss of pure natural beauty. Basically, Zaria's work has environmental themes with underlying meanings, she wanted to promote awareness of current causes of climate change which also causes the Arctic Polar melt, rising seas and so forth.

After travelling, taking photographs and making sketches of natural spots like Greenland, Antarctica and Maldives, where the effects of climate change are widely evident, she forms these large scale compositions. She said “In this process I am reminded of how small we are when confronted with the powerful forces of nature.”.  The details and precisions are stunning, the expression of light, shadows, shades and mostly the water are amazing and feels like it is more than real. 

Quotation from; https://www.artsy.net/artist/zaria-forman

For more info and to see her work please check: http://www.zariaforman.com/

Photographs are form: https://www.artsy.net/show/artstar-pastels-become-water-new-work-by-zaria-forman

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