Fotosfer
El Centro Cultural Ataturk (AKM) de la ciudad de Estambul acoge durante los primeros meses de 2022 la exposición Fotosfer, We Set Out From The Street , dedicada en esta ocasión a la fotografía de calle. Esta muestra, que constituye un escaparate de las últimas tendencias en la disciplina del street photography, cuenta con una selección de fotografías de Jorge Lens que fueron seleccionadas por los organizadores del certamen para ser expuestas en este nuevo centro cultural ubicado en la céntrica plaza de Taksim de la capital turca.
Además, con motivo de esta exposición, se ha editado un gran catálogo de más de 500 páginas donde además de recoger las fotografías expuestas en la muestra, se realiza un amplio recorrido visual en torno a autores de todos los tiempos destacados en el ámbito fotografía urbana, como Cartier Bresson, Fan Ho, Martin Parr, Elliott Erwitt, Josef Koudelka, Trent Parke, Daido Moriyama, etc., etc.
La exposición y la publicación se complementan con unas jornadas organizadas por la Asociación Turca de Fotografía (Türkiye Fotograf Vakfi) dedicadas a la street photography, que tienen lugar en el Centro Cultural Tarik Zafer Tunaya. De tal modo, los días 5 y 6 de enero pasarán por el escenario del Centro Cultural diferentes representantes de la fotografía de calle venidos de diferentes partes del mundo. El fotógrafo Jorge Lens ha sido uno de los autores seleccionados y participará con su charla el día 6 de enero.
Título exposición: FOTOSFER, We Set Out From The Street
Lugar: Centro Cultural Ataturk (AKM), Estambul (Turquía)
Tema: Fotografía contemporánea dedicada a la streetphotography con participantes de más de 30 países
Fechas: del 4 al 9 de enero de 2022
As a genre of photography, street photography exists since the invention of photography and with today’s technical opportunities, anyone can perform like a street photographer. This condition, however, brings two important questions along. Has everyone interested in imaging become a street photographer as a result of the rapid improvements in photograph technology due to the advances in digital technologies? How should the concept of street photography and street photographer be defined today? To address these questions subaims are identified and data is collected through document analysis and literature review methods of qualitative research design. The findings indicated that not everyone who uses the opportunities presented by digital technologies can be defined as a street photographer. Like all other disciplines, hands-on practice, background knowledge, and theoretical knowledge are important in photography.
Hence, the opportunities of digital technologies can only have a facilitative role for the photographers with fundamental background. The others who lack the aforementioned qualifications can only be considered as amateur photographers.
«Building a Bridge to the Future “ por Murat Aydın, PresIdent of the TurkIsh Photography Foundation
Dear readers,
The photograph of a vulture standing over a starving African child, taken by Kevin Carter in Sudan in 1993, is engraved in the memories as one of the best known moments in the world. This powerful work, which fits numerous ideas, criticisms and truth in a single frame, from fair distribution of resources to the indifference towards the tragedy of people who struggle with hunger, confirms the following view: Photography is not just a recording of a moment, it is the act of preserving the social, cultural and emotional accumulation by sealing it.
We had set this aspect of photography as our primary goal when we were founding the Turkish Photography Foundation. Photographing our cultural accumulation in all its aspects, collecting, preserving and utilizing the photography heritage of our country were our primary goals. Furthermore, we have implemented many projects in a short time prioritizing the promotion of the photography in our country, the development and expansion of the art of photography in society.
Despite the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, we went on to produce projects, such as photography competitions and exhibitions with the aim of recording this extraordinary experience as well. Created with great enthusiasm, the most prominent of these productions is now in your hands or on your digital device: TFV FOTOSFER Photography Culture Magazine.
We chose our first issue’s theme as “street photography”, the most popular genre of the recent period that constantly expands its own lane thanks to the spread of digital photography. Standing out as the rapidly rising trend of recent years, street photography is my personal style as I opened two exhibitions in this field. Easy access to photography equipment has significantly increased the production in this genre. Street photography that seals and preserves the spirit, emotion and moments of present day, gains more and more value over the years and becomes a unique treasure for the future. When we want to take a journey to the Istanbul of the past, the works of the late master Ara Güler appears before us which perfectly exemplifies the value of this treasure.
In our TFV FOTOSFER Photography Culture Magazine, which will be published at least once a year with a different theme in each issue, will features articles by photographers from across the world, photographs, eye-opening pieces, files and exclusive content under various discipline.
Based on the fact that many prominent artists known for their works in street photography, have not produced works in current street photography style, our range is a little broader. Thus, we aim to present our readers with different schools from past to present. Selected portfolios consist of both classical and contemporary works. Some are right on the intersection of these. This issue features 45 portfolios from more than 30 countries. We bring you 33 articles with distinct and rich content, from famous a la minute photographers who left their marks on to the streets during the film photography era, to the new period. We can proudly claim that TFV FOTOSFER Photography Culture Magazine has the highest level of international participation among the similar publications in our country. Articles and portfolios published under street photography theme cannot cover the whole literature, although amply covered in this magazine. However, for each theme, we wanted to take a step so you, our readers, can get informed about important works, names, publications and subjects in that field.
We have all put great effort into preparing our magazine and have established an important strategy to deliver it all over the world with the aim of sharing this rich content more in the international photography media. The main publication of the magazine will be in Turkish-English languages and will also be translated into the most prevalent languages in the world as well as into those spoken in our cultural geography. These publications will be printed to be sent to the respective countries and presented to the whole world as PDF on our website https://turkiyefotografvakfi.org/. Our magazine will be published bilingual, one of which is always Turkish. We believe that our understanding of publishing in two languages will form a valuable bridge in terms of the contact between two cultures.
TFV FOTOSFER Photography Culture Magazine is created with great effort and commitment. I would like to thank all the photographers and writers who contributed to our magazine with their works, the Turkish Photography Foundation Board of Trustees and Board of Directors, and everyone who contributed in the preparation of our magazine. I wish the first issue of our magazine to be beneficial. Enjoy reading…
