NADİR BUÇAN
photographer
ABOUT
BIO
Nadir Buçan, Ph.D., defines himself as both an academician and documentary photographer. His photographic works has been exhibited in cities such as New York, Paris, London, Barcelona, Berlin and Beijing and has been published in national and international magazines such as China Newsweek, LensCulture, Kwerfeldein, Tutti Fotografi, Ignant, Les Others, La Fotografia, My Modern Met, Plain Magazine, WePresent and Tous les Jours Curieux. In 2017, Culture Trip Magazine named him one of the 10 Turkish photographers to know. His book “Post Documentary Photography: The Changing Boundaries of Documentary Photography” was published by Espas Publications in 2020. Buçan works as as an associate professor at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University Faculty of Fine Arts and teaches photography and cinema courses.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Under the Shadow of the Sun
Space Place Gallery, Nizhny Tagil, Russia
OCTOBER 26 - NOVEMBER 09, 2018
Van that I Have Seen is Now in Ruins
ATK Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
MAY 02 - 12, 2012
Black and White
ATK Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
MAY 03 - 10, 2002
FESTIVALS AND BIENNALES
"Photomenta" exhibition, Eretz Israel Museum
Tel Aviv, Israel
SEPTEMBER 18, 2021 - SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
3rd Chania International Photo Festival
Chania, Greece.
AUGUST 12-18, 2020
Bursa International Photo Festival, ACCC Fair Area Bursa, Turkey
OCTOBER 04 - 13, 2019
Festimatge, Calella Image Festival
Calella, Spain
APRIL 07 - 28, 2019
Barcelona Foto Biennale
Nau Bostik, Barcelona, Spain
OCTOBER 04 - 21, 2018
San José Foto
International Photography Festival, San José, Uruguay
APRIL 06 - 08, 2018
La Quatriéme Image International Photography Festival Halle des Blancs--Manteaux, Paris, France
APRIL 04 - 17, 2017
Songzhuang International Photo Biennale
Czech China Contemporary Museum, Beijing, China
SEPTEMBER 29 - OCTOBER 13, 2017
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
""Isolation: Living Apart" exhibition, LoosenArt
Rome, Italy
FEBRUARY 05 - MARCH 05, 2020
Places and Faces
PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, USA
NOVEMBER 07 - DECEMBER 08, 2018
Barcelona International Photography Awards Exhibition
Gallery Valid Foto, Barcelona, Spain
SEPTEMBER 13 - OCTOBER 13, 2018
12th Pollux Awards Exhibition, Gallery Valid Foto
Barcelona, Spain
MAY 08 - 25, 2019
Fauna
The SE Center for Photography, Greenville, USA
DECEMBER 07 - 29, 2018
Urban Landscapes, Suburban Scenes, Rural Impressions
Jadite Gallery, New York, USA
SEPTEMBER 27 - OCTOBER 6, 2018
Photography Now
The Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK
JANUARY 03 -15, 2018
The World Through My Eyes
Gallery Valid Foto, Barcelona, Spain
APRIL 10 - 28, 2018
The Independent Photographer Berlin Annual Exhibition Eigenheim Gallery, Berlin, Germany
OCTOBER 05 - 10, 2017
LensCulture Winter Exhibition 2017
Klompching Gallery, New York, USA
DECEMBER 13 - 23, 2017
Photography Now
The Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK
NOVEMBER 08 - 9, 2017
AWARDS
ACADEMIC ARTICLES
BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Bucan, N., Post Documentary Photography, Espas Publishing, Istanbul, 2020 (in Turkish)
San José International Photography Festival, Exhibition catalogue, San José, Uruguay, 2018
Urban Landscapes, Suburban Scenes, Rural Impressions, New York Center for Photographic Art, Catalogue for Prize Winning Images, New York, USA, 2018
The Best of LensCulture Vol.1 Photobook, Schilt Publishing, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2017
The Independent Photographer Talents of the Year 2016/2017 Photobook, The Independent Photographer Publishing, Berlin, Germany, 2017
La Quatrieme Image Festival International De Photographie, Exhibition catalogue, Halle des Blancs-Manteaux, Paris, France, 2017
Songzhuang International Photo Biennale 2017, Exhibition catalogue, Czech China Contemporary Museum, Beijing, China, 2017