TFSF 8 March International Working Women's Day National Online Group Photography Exhibition 2022

Laleper AYTEK

(1960-) is an artist and a photographer, college instructor, curator and critic living and working in Istanbul. 

After graduating from Boğaziçi University with a BA degree in economics, she went to Norway to pursue graduate studies in social economics where her interest shifted more and more to photography. Her growing interest in photography that has stated in her college years resulted in her opening a photography studio in Istanbul in the early 90’s. While practicing her art as a free-lance advertising photographer, she also made valuable contributions to photography in Turkey by taking part, as the director of photography, in the establishment of the first large scale digital photography studios in Turkey.  Since 2009, Aytek is working as a full-time instructor and teaching courses on photography in the Department of Media & Visual Arts (MAVA), Koç University (Istanbul).

Aytek’s contribution to the literature is mainly through her journal articles where she focuses especially on the “ways of seeing” and the “history of photography” from a subjectivity point of view. This peculiar approach is mainly elaborated in her MA thesis entitled “Rethinking the History of Photography Canon: A Study on Subjectivity”. Her published work includes a collection of her articles on photographic thinking; A Photography of Her Own (2005), Palimpsest Istanbul (2010) and Void (2013), Non Paris (2014), Partie au loin, au fond d’elle meme? (2017) and Life is Elsewhere (2019). As a photographer, Aytek also participated in numerous solo, and group shows since 1991.

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Duygu Nazire KAŞIKCI

She was born in 1983. She completed her undergraduate education in Gazi University Computer and Instructional Technologies Department, her PhD in the same department at METU, and her associate degree in Anadolu University Photography and Cameraman department.

In 2008, she attended the basic photography knowledge seminar at FSK. She has been actively working for the association as the Secretary General of the FSK Board of Directors in 2009-2012, as the Chairman of the Board of the FSK Board in the 2013-2014 period, and as a member of the FSK Board of Auditors in the 2015-2016 periods, as a member of the KASK Board of Directors since 2018 and as the President of the KASK Board of Directors as of 2022. She has been a TFSF Board Member since 2017.

She took part in Basic Photography Knowledge, Macro Photography and Photo Show Preparation seminars. She was the chapter author of the Basic Photography Information book conducted by TFSF. She gave "Basic Photography Course" at Kocaeli University.

She has awards and exhibitions in various photography competitions, photography shows she presented in different places and her photographs in group exhibitions.

She is a member of FSK and KASK.

She is still continuing her postgraduate education at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts Photography Department. She works at Kocaeli University as a Doctoral Lecturer.

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Gülbin ÖZDAMAR AKARÇAY

Gulbin Ozdamar Akarcay, received B.A. and M.Sc. in Journalism from Anadolu University in Turkey. Her B.A. graduation project titled “Faces of Prisoners” was exhibited in IFSAK İstanbul Photography Days in 2002. She studied in The Academy of Performing Arts, Film and TV School (FAMU), Department of Still Photography in Prague for a year in 2006. She was one of the curators of Intimate Revolt exhibition, which was funded with a grant from FAMU, the Cultural Ministry of Lithuania and Czech Republic in 2007-2008. This exhibition took place in Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovenia and Turkey consisting 10 photographers from 10 countries. She opened “Faces of Prisoners”, “Narodni Divadlo”, “Children of Maticni” as her personal exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions “66-II”, “Spirit Of Prague”, “Six Czech School Photography”, ”History Of Photography Is History Of Miserableness”, “Living Woman Self-Portrait”, “It Seems As If Anything I Feel”. She was selected World Press Photo (WPPH) Seminar organized in Turkey in 2002-2004. Her photo-story “Children of Maticni” was published in WPPH Magazine and at the book titled Photojournale Connections Across A Human Planet. She established Living Woman Photography Group, which advocates for women and children who are victims of violence. She published articles in some edited books, journals and magazines. She is an Associated Professor at the Faculty of Art and Design, Osmangazi University in Eskisehir/Turkey. She hold a post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Ethnography at University of Toronto Scarborough in 2016-2017. Her research that is supported by TUBITAK focuses on aspects of cross-cultural marriage for members of the Turkish diaspora in Toronto.