Photographer İmdat Akgün's "Colors of Istanbul" exhibition met with Istanbulites in Beyoğlu.
The exhibition in front of Galatasaray High School, organized with the support of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) Department of Culture and curated by Işıl Çelik, includes 32 photographs of the artist on the subject of Istanbul.
In the exhibition, which attracted great interest from Istanbulites, İmdat Akgün establishes a connection between the past and the present of the city, which never ages despite its deep-rooted history and is in constant motion, with his photographs. The photographer, who combines the real colors of Istanbul with digital colors from time to time, says the following about the exhibition;
The rush of the crowd of people trying to cross the street in Sirkeci in the early hours of the morning, the compassion of a young woman feeding the fish on the Karaköy - Kadıköy ferry, the patience of the fishermen who are regulars on the Galata Bridge, the hope given by the blue sky in the narrow streets of Balat, smelling of history, the dreams of a child watching the crowds of the city from an overpass, the peace experienced with the sunset at the Süleymaniye Mosque, Atatürk's visit to Sarayburnu. You will see the pride in his statue facing Anatolia, perhaps in my photographs...
Who is İmdat Akgün?
I was born in Erzurum in 1991. I completed my education at Eskişehir Anadolu University, Department of International Relations.
Graphic design, which I started as a hobby, later turned into my profession. In my amateur photography adventure, which I started to collect memories, I turned to landscape photography. I took photographs in many regions and cities of Turkey. Sometimes I photographed the crowds of the city, sometimes a historical building we passed, sometimes a moment. Taking photographs taught me how important the "moment" in life that we are not aware of is. As Ara Güler said, “Life is an empty movie given to us, try to fill every frame perfectly.”
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