Both Tale and Truth

Saygun Dura

Saygun Dura, born in 1964, worked as a photographer and photograph director in an advertising agency in the years between 1989 and 1996. Since then, he has been continuing his career as advertising photographer in his own studio. Dura, who has given seminars on advertising and creative ohotography also has given the lectures called "Advertising Photography, Studio and Light Techniques" in many universities such as Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Department of Graphics, Bahçeşehir University Department of Photography, Doğuş University Department of Graphics, İstanbul Technical University Fine Arts Faculty between 2004 and 2014. He curated the book and exhibition called “Deep Sea Illuminators”, worked in the photo shoots of the project called “Do you know Hasankeyf?”. Also took the underwater photographs of a project which is about producing an underground map of the cistern, well and waterways in Topkapı Palace. Many photographs of him which went on the auction have taken part in special collections and museums. Dura, who provides training for underwater photography, is also a diving trainer and did underwater photo shoots and workshops in many parts of the world. Besides national and international awards, he also held personal exhibitions in İstanbul and New York, participated in many group exhibitions and panels, appeared in selection committees.

Andreas Georgiadis

Andreas Georgiadis was born in 1972 in Thessaloniki. He lives and works in Athens. He studied painting under George Rorris, graphic design at the School of Graphic Arts and Artistic Studies in Athens and illustration in Orleans, France. He has had 13 solo art exhibitions in Greece and overseas and received major distinctions. His works have been acquired by museums, public and private collections, and have illustrated books and records. As a set designer he has helped design the B. and E. Goulandris Foundation as well as many exhibitions at the Gennadius Library, the Museum of Cycladic Art, the Benaki Museum and elsewhere. He also works in theatre as a set and costume designer. He heads the art team of Mikri Arktos publications.

Murat Germen

Born in Ankara, in 1965, Murat Germen is an artist using photography as an expression and research tool. He holds a MArch degree from the Massachusetts Institue of Technology, which he attended as a Fullbright scholar and where he received the AIA Henry Adams Gold Medal for academic excellence. He currently works as a proffesor of art, photography and new media at Sabanci Universty in Istanbul, and has contributed articles and photo series on architecture, photography, art and new media to a wide range of magazines and books.

His exhibiting career includes over eighty shows both in Turkey and throughout the world ( United States, Italy, Germany, UK, Mexico, Portugal, Uzbekistan, Greece, Japan, Russia, Iran, India, France, Canada, Bahrain, Korea, Dubai, China, Sweden, Switzerland and Egypt.) Currently represented by art ON Istanbul, ARTITLEDcontemporary (Netherlands / Belgium) and Rosies Gallery (San Francisco), more than three hundred editions of his artworks are in eminent personal collections, and several in those of Istanbul Modern and Proje4L Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art (Istanbul.)

Nihal Gündüz

Lives and works in Istanbul. Graduated from the Photography Department of the Fine Arts Faculty at Mimar Sinan University in 1996. Completed her master's degree in Photography at Marmara University in 1999 and then began working professionally in the fields of advertising and fashion. While continuing to work in advertising and fashion, she also teaches Fashion Photography at Yeditepe University's Faculty of Fine Arts.

Ersin Gürtel

Born in 1979 in Eregli, lives and works in Istanbul. After graduating from Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting Department, he completed her master's degree at the same university. 

Gürtel prioritizes figurative compositions in his paintings and paints them with a special technique. In his works, he portrays the good, bad, dark and light features of human beings in different techniques, as well as questioning social roles, identities and cultural structure.

Deniz Köse

Born in 1981 in Eskişehir, after graduating from Eskişehir Anadolu University, Department of Printmaking, she started her master's degree at the same university and is still continuing her studies.

The artist uses steel construction in her print paintings as a reaction to the unnatural, hybridised nature.

Since 2008, she has participated in many group exhibitions.

Tayfun Pirselimoğlu

Born in Trabzon. Pirselimoğlu graduated from Middle East Technical University after which he went to Vienna and enrolled at Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst where he studied under Professor Wolfgang Hutter, one of the most important names in the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. He also studied engraving under Professor Sigi Schenk.

Pirselimoğlu held various solo and joint exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. His drawings have been published in a number of magazines. He is one of the founders of the independent art initiative ‘Akademie Genius’ where he has conducted workshops and given classes.

Pirselimoğlu wrote and directed the films ‘Innowhereland’, ‘Rıza’, ‘Haze’, ‘Hair’, ‘I’m not Him’, ‘Sideway’ and ‘Kerr’. He was also nominated for an Oscar for the movie 'Kerr'. He is the author of seven novels (‘Tales from the Desert’, ‘The Album of the Lost People’, ‘Melancholy’, ‘Towers of the City’, ‘Kerr’, ‘Barber’, ‘Surveyor’) and three story books (‘Hotel Rooms’, ‘The Newest Lives of Harry Lime or Praise to the Third Man’, ‘The Other Side of the Desert’)