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İpek Çınar

İPEK ÇINAR

Born in 1992 in Ankara, İpek Çınar has completed her studies in Political Sciences at METU in 2018 and began her graduate studies in the ‘Art in Context’ MA programme at UdK Berlin in 2020.

Working predominantly with the photographic medium since 2011, Çınar tells stories that seek to convey an idiosyncratic language by blending photography with writing. In addition to her photographic production, she contributes to various publications with essays, interviews and series of articles; prepares exhibition catalogues and acts as a content advisor, particularly on photography.

Çınar was among the coordinators of The Booklab project by Frederic Lezmi and Okay Karadayılar; she worked as an instructor for the Darkroom and editing workshops at Ka Fotoğraf Geliştirme Atölyesi (Photography Enhancement Atelier) in Ankara and acted as a content advisor for the photography documentary of TRT 2, İzler Suretler (Faces Traces).

She opened solo exhibitions at Poligon “The Shooting Gallery” and at Ka Fotoğraf Geliştirme Atölyesi and took part in numerous group shows in Turkey and abroad. She has been invited to international artist residencies, workshops and festivals where she participated in exhibition and lecture programs. İpek Çınar, who is also a member of AICA Turkey, is the co-editor of Orta Format Magazine since 2015 and she loves the magazine very much.

POSTS BY THE WRITER

Waves, Sands, Winds: Patina of the Era in the Fluid Image of Nature

1 October 2021 Fri

Thoughts on capturing the transforming image of nature...

Fully-intended But Non-Explanatory: An Interview with Frank Thiel

16 March 2021 Tue

Frank Thiel is a German photographer who was born in the 1960s, in Kleinmachnow near Berlin, where he moved in the late 1980s to study photography.

Landscape is the perfect topic to fail: An Interview with Axel Hütte

14 January 2021 Thu

An Interview With Olaf Otto Becker

29 May 2020 Fri

Olaf Otto Becker is a German photographer born in 1959, who works on long-term projects, blending his social and political stances with aesthetic decisions.

An Interview with Michael Kenna

26 March 2020 Thu

When I started writing an introductory text for this conversation, I could not go beyond the sentence "Michael Kenna is a British photographer born in 1953.".

On Boomoon the Power of Water

12 April 2019 Fri

WRITER: İPEK ÇINAR

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