She was born in 1980 in Istanbul. She moved to Ankara in 2008 and started professional photography. Since 2018, she has started to concentrate on her personal work as well as commercial photography. Apart from the portrait shots she made with models, she tried to express herself with self-portraits. In the last two years, she won more than 100 admissions and 11 awards, mostly with her self-portraits, in international competitions she participated in. She still continues to do professional photography and produce artistic content in her home studio. The married artist has a daughter and strives to raise an individual who is useful to the world, with artistic and scientific thinking.

MANIFEST

“If the woman were able to sit herself down and peer into her own heart, she would see there a need to have her talents, her gifts, and her limitations re¬spectfully acknowledged and accepted.”

 Clarissa P. Estes

A woman is born. She grows herself under various social burdens. She stops hers growth with the responsibilities, demands and curses placed on her body and soul. She is kneaded with the patriarchal world order based on oppressing women, her soul is torn to pieces and perhaps remains without an identity.

Through the concept of woman, both the oppression of women against women and the oppression of men against women reveal the separation more clearly. Shaping, giving names, endless effort to classify and a living creature killed in blood.

For generations, women have married men to prove their existence, to be visible. Not only women, but every individual with different identities married to be visible and even gave birth to avoid being excluded from society. She tried to prove her existence as a mother. Instead of being glorified with her fertility, she was further suppressed and humiliated.

The universe we live in is a magnificent structure with its differences. Every living thing that exists is "single, unique" on its own. While differences should bring the desire to live with happiness and excitement, on the contrary, they are humiliated, crushed and excluded from society.

In today's world, whisper to the industrial wheels and even to your humanity lost in the digital world;

Remember to look in the mirror, to see yourself. Cut ties with the feelings of suppression and oppression that have been secretly sneaking into your subconscious rooms for centuries, transmitted by genetic codes. Heal yourself, heal your humanity. Do not pass on your secret enemy to new generations, let it go. May every individual and every living creature live freely and happily as they deserve. Let the red color only continue to flow in our veins, there is no point in bleeding humanity...

With light…

Ayça KARAOĞLAN

February, 2022