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Conceptual - NOMINEE: Leyla EMEKTAR
Children and dreams
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Children and dreams
I focus on the subject I want to depict, and think about how I could express the message in the best way.
Peace is established beginning from our surroundings. I believe it starts with loving your siblings, friends, neighbours, nation, neighbouring countries and in the end all the people around the world. Everything starts with living in peace.
My photos were taken in Kocaeli/Turkey. They are composed of many different subjects. I tried to express friendship, brotherhood, peace, nature love, sadness, joy of living, excitement, hope, etc. in short all feelings of man. Here I tried to picture the children, who lost their parents and homes, longing for their beloved ones while getting closely connected to each other. At the end, the children are the ones that are affected the most by wars and terrorism. Each photograph contains a different drawing and different subject.
My aim as a photographer is to get the viewers to question the realities about life through the work I created with a style specific to me.”
We drew the illustrations together with the children in the photos. The children were very happy to be part of the photograph and we had a lot of fun during the drawing and shooting.
About author:
The photography artist, Leyla EMEKTAR was born in 1972 in Adana. After completing her primary, secondary and high education in this city, she graduated from Çukurova University, Art Department of Faculty of Fine Arts. She started her career as Visual Arts Teacher and she is still pursuing her job and also tutoring part time at Kocaeli University, Department of Photography of Faculty of Fine Arts.
The photographer who gives lectures as workshops to photography societies and groups, was rewarded the degree of AFIAP in 2012 and EFIAP by “Federation ınternationale de L’art Photographique (FIAP)”.
She was given the degree of GPUCR2 by Global Photographic Union in 2014.
In both national and international contests, her works won over 150 prizes.
In 2013, by the Digital Arts Museum in California, her artworks were given Stellar Art Awards.
In 2015, in the documentary portfolio competition organized by China HPA and Unesco –the official partner-, by achieving a great success she was invited to China.
Winning “The Alfred Fried Photography Award” which is held in Austria, she was invited to the Ceremony of Peace Photography and she became one of five photographers who deserved to get Peace Photography Prize in 2016. Her artwork was perenially taken to the Parliament Museum in Austria.
In the International Photography Festival that is held in Siena, 2016, among 127 countries and 45000 photographs, she deserved to get the first prize, she was invited to Italy and brought Pangea Prize to her country.
In the years 2010, 2012, 2014, she got the Success Prize for three times in the Government Photography Contest in the section of Creative Works.
Her personal interviews were published in the leading International Photography Magazines.
With the photography artist Kemal KAYA, by carrying out an interactive photography exhibition project called “The Other Side of Life”, she brought something new to her field.
With the photographer Hakan TOKUÇ, she carried out a documentary project called “Sezer’s Diary” which is about a disabled child and the life from his point of view.
She took part in many national and international photography festivals with her personal and group exhibitions.
She takes part as a member of jury in many national and international photography competitions.
She keeps working on Creative Photography.
She is married and has two children.
I focus on the subject I want to depict, and think about how I could express the message in the best way.
Peace is established beginning from our surroundings. I believe it starts with loving your siblings, friends, neighbours, nation, neighbouring countries and in the end all the people around the world. Everything starts with living in peace.
My photos were taken in Kocaeli/Turkey. They are composed of many different subjects. I tried to express friendship, brotherhood, peace, nature love, sadness, joy of living, excitement, hope, etc. in short all feelings of man. Here I tried to picture the children, who lost their parents and homes, longing for their beloved ones while getting closely connected to each other. At the end, the children are the ones that are affected the most by wars and terrorism. Each photograph contains a different drawing and different subject.
My aim as a photographer is to get the viewers to question the realities about life through the work I created with a style specific to me.”
We drew the illustrations together with the children in the photos. The children were very happy to be part of the photograph and we had a lot of fun during the drawing and shooting.
About author:
The photography artist, Leyla EMEKTAR was born in 1972 in Adana. After completing her primary, secondary and high education in this city, she graduated from Çukurova University, Art Department of Faculty of Fine Arts. She started her career as Visual Arts Teacher and she is still pursuing her job and also tutoring part time at Kocaeli University, Department of Photography of Faculty of Fine Arts.
The photographer who gives lectures as workshops to photography societies and groups, was rewarded the degree of AFIAP in 2012 and EFIAP by “Federation ınternationale de L’art Photographique (FIAP)”.
She was given the degree of GPUCR2 by Global Photographic Union in 2014.
In both national and international contests, her works won over 150 prizes.
In 2013, by the Digital Arts Museum in California, her artworks were given Stellar Art Awards.
In 2015, in the documentary portfolio competition organized by China HPA and Unesco –the official partner-, by achieving a great success she was invited to China.
Winning “The Alfred Fried Photography Award” which is held in Austria, she was invited to the Ceremony of Peace Photography and she became one of five photographers who deserved to get Peace Photography Prize in 2016. Her artwork was perenially taken to the Parliament Museum in Austria.
In the International Photography Festival that is held in Siena, 2016, among 127 countries and 45000 photographs, she deserved to get the first prize, she was invited to Italy and brought Pangea Prize to her country.
In the years 2010, 2012, 2014, she got the Success Prize for three times in the Government Photography Contest in the section of Creative Works.
Her personal interviews were published in the leading International Photography Magazines.
With the photography artist Kemal KAYA, by carrying out an interactive photography exhibition project called “The Other Side of Life”, she brought something new to her field.
With the photographer Hakan TOKUÇ, she carried out a documentary project called “Sezer’s Diary” which is about a disabled child and the life from his point of view.
She took part in many national and international photography festivals with her personal and group exhibitions.
She takes part as a member of jury in many national and international photography competitions.
She keeps working on Creative Photography.
She is married and has two children.