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Echoes from Northeast Anatolia

This series is the result of a ten-day photography journey I took through the Northeast Anatolia region of Turkey in September 2012. Starting from Van, I followed a route through Doğubeyazıt, Iğdır, Kars, and Ardahan—a path that became the foundation for both a physical exploration and a visual narrative. The ten photographs in the series are the visual projections of this ten-day journey. Every frame corresponds to a moment, a place, or a gesture I encountered on the road. Sometimes in homes where I was kindly hosted, other times during brief stops along the way, I captured small but meaningful traces of daily life in this remote geography. These images can be read as a kind of visual diary—simultaneously personal and part of a shared memory. Working with a documentary photography approach, I focused not only on the landscape I traveled through, but also on the human connections that emerged along the way. Conversations shared in unfamiliar kitchens, the silence of still moments, and the vastness of rural spaces—all continue to echo within the images. Echoes from Northeast Anatolia is an attempt to record not just a geography, but also a sense of time and perspective shaped by the journey. These photographs are traces of both the road itself and the inner terrain it opened within me.

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