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Olay

Author: Emin Ozmen  

Renowned Magnum photographer Emin OEzmen presents long-term personal work in his first book, Olay: a powerful chronicle of a tumultuous decade in his homeland of Turkey.

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Renowned Magnum photographer Emin OEzmen presents long-term personal work in his first book, Olay: a powerful chronicle of a tumultuous decade in his homeland of Turkey.

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Meaning 'event' or 'incident', Olay is a powerful chronicle of a tumultuous decade in Turkey, tirelessly documented by Emin OEzmen. This first book by OEzmen is a retrospective of his work to date, recounting the photographer's homeland in a ceaseless state of turmoil, hit by dramatic events: a failed coup d'etat, popular uprisings, natural disasters, political purges, and ongoing military operations. This vivid and fast-paced series of black-and- white photographs is punctuated with moments of calm in the form of meditative colour images and personal texts. Despite the omnipresent tension, a feeling of graciousness and warmth emerges from OEzmen's work, which unfolds to form a nuanced and necessary comment on the Turkish state and the sentiments of its people.'We are constantly being tossed around between violence and quiet daily life. Turkey gives no respite. Never a week without a drama, never a month without a major event. Olay is a documentation of Turkey, on the brink of violence and grace. Here, nothing is simple, everything intertwines and clashes, the beautiful as well as the ugly, sadness as well as joy.' Emin OEzmenThe book includes an extensive timeline introduced by Piotr Zalewski, Turkey correspondent for The Economist, as well as personal texts written by OEzmen, and is co-edited with Cloe Kerhoas.

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About the Author

Emin OEzmen (b. 1985, Turkey) is a Magnum photographer based in Istanbul, Turkey. For more than fifteen years, he has undertaken a long project of photographic documentation of the social, climatic, and civil troubles that shake the world, in his country in particular. His work has been published by TIME, The New York Times, Wash-ington Post, Der Spiegel, Le Monde magazine M, Paris Match, and Newsweek, among others. OEzmen has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including two World Press Photo awards, the Philip Jones Griffiths Award, the Public Prize of The Bayeux Calvados awards for war correspondents. He was a member of the jury of 2016 and 2018 World Press Photo Multimedia contests.Cloe Kerhoas (b. 1987, France) is an historian, photography consultant, and photo editor. A long-term collaborator of Emin OEzmen, she has been working on the Olay project for several years and co-edited this book with him.

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Product Details

Publisher
MACK
Published
1st November 2023
ISBN
9781913620738

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