EXHIBITION | LECTURE | PORTFOLIO REVIEW Süreyya Yılmaz Denek was born in İstanbul in 1972. 2000 Mimar Sinan University, Department of Photography (BA degree) 1995 Within the scope of Habitat II exhibition, in the display window of the Stefanel store with photographs made from old İstanbul engravings, using the experimental Van Dyke technique 1997 First [...]
Portfolio Review Queen | Maggie Steber

PORTFOLIO REVIEW Maggie Steber was born and raised in Texas, documentary photographer Maggie Steber has lived and worked all over the world. Early in her career she worked as a reporter and photographer for the Galveston Daily News and as a picture editor for the Associated Press in New York. Steber’s photos have appeared in magazines around [...]
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LECTURE | PORTFOLIO REVIEW Fred Ritchin is professor of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and co-director of the NYU/Magnum Foundation Photography and Human Rights educational program. Previously the picture editor of the New York Times Magazine (1978-82), executive editor of Camera Arts magazine (1982-83), and founding director of the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Program at [...]
Photographer | Kristin Capp

EXHIBITION | LECTURE | PORTFOLIO REVIEW Kristin Capp is a photographer based in Windhoek, Namibia who has exhibited in Europe, the US, Brazil and in Namibia. Her work is held in many public and private collections internationally. Her photography monograph, Hutterite: A World of Grace (Edition Stemmle, Zurich,1998) was the study of a religious community [...]
Educator | Melanie Light

LECTURE | PORTFOLIO REVIEW Melanie Light is a writer/essayist, publisher, and photography critic. Her published work includes Valley of Shadows and Dreams (Heyday, 2012) and Coal Hollow(UC Press, 2006). She has published three special edition photo books: Night at the Met with photographs by Larry Fink, Mad Day Out with photos of the Beatles and Opium Women with photos by Melih Arican. She is the co-founding [...]
Educator | Ken Light

LECTURE | PORTFOLIO REVIEW Ken Light is a social documentary photographer whose work has appeared in books, magazines and exhibitions. His most recent book Coal Hollow (University of California Press) was published in 2005. His last photo book, Texas Death Row (1997) is a look at life inside the death house as the condemned wait to be executed in [...]
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EXHIBITION: “Creating the 20th Century” | LECTURE | PORTFOLIO REVIEW Ara Güler was born in Istanbul in 1928. The most important living representative of creative photography in Turkey today, he has a well-established international reputation. He began a career in journalism with the newspaper Yeni İstanbul in 1950. He became a photojournalist for Time-Life in [...]
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LECTURE | PORTFOLIO REVIEW Anna Shpakova born in Belorussia. Leaves in Moscow. Graduated from Moscow State University, psychology department in psychoanalysis, psychology of art. Wrote her dissertation on war and war photographers. Director of photography of various magazines in Moscow (Afisha, Ogoniok, Snob). Curator of numerous exhibitions in Russia and abroad, including exhibitions for Moscow [...]