Home Artworks Northern Forest No.09

Northern Forest No.09

2013

Dated Titled

From the series Wet City Series No.83

Size

18 x 13 cm
7 x 5.12 in

Year

2013

Medium

Prints

Reference

d2dd0b28

Wet Plate Collodion -  Clear Glass Ambrotype

1968 Şırnak, Turkey

Born in 1968 in Şırnak, Yusuf Murat Şen received his Undergraduate degree from Marmara University, and afterwards attended the Masters Program in the Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Fine Arts Photography Department, as well as receiving his Proficiency in Art. Şenbecame a Lecturer in 2002, and a Professor in 2009. A lecturer in the Photography Department since 1991, Şen served as the Head of Photography Department in the Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Fine Arts University between the years of 2007 – 2013. 

Besides his teaching duties, between 2015 – 2022 Şen served as the Director of FUAM (Photography Research and Application Center) which he also is one of the founding members, as well as the director of the ‘Istanbul Photobook Festival’, organized in Istanbul for the first time in Turkey. With his work previously internationally exhibited in Austria, Sweden, Greece and Bosnia - Herzigova, Yusuf Murat Şen has explored the antique methods of photography, its contemporary connotations, and photography archiving for many years. Mainly focusing on the interchangeable cultural and sociological tensions of Turkey, the monopolized system of politics, and urbanization, the artist contributes to the Turkish art arena with work that carry the qualities of documentary photography. 

Şen currently lives and works in İstanbul, organizing photobook workshops, exhibitions, seminars, artist talks, and consulting projects as well as participating in judging panels.


Read more

Address

Istanbul,

Versus Art Project was founded in 2015 by Leyla Ünsal and Mert Ünsal, is an international contemporary art gallery, based in Istanbul. The gallery focuses on contemporary art by both emerging talents and established artists, who work in a wide variety of media, and is one of the prominent Turkish galleries within photo-based art. With five to six shows per...

Read more

Portrait No.1

2016

80 x 60 x 4 cm

35800,00 €