Disappointing Light (2022- ongoing)

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Disappointing Light is an ongoing photographic series captured across cities and in-between spaces of Türkiye. In search of diverse landscapes and identities, the work moves beyond familiar urban imagery and explores a wide range of locations, from city edges to peripheral and transient spaces. Rather than presenting a unified narrative, the images remain as fragments, reflecting the rhythm of a country in a constant state of transition.
Through these observations, the series questions how places are seen, remembered and misread. Light becomes both subject and metaphor. It remains unstable and partial, charged with tension as it reveals and conceals at once.
Özge Ertürk is a local artist currently based in Berlin. In this body of work, she explores new ways of seeing and belonging, using photography as a tool to navigate distance, displacement, and shifting identity between geographies.

Fotohane Darkroom (2026)
I spent some time at @fotohanedarkroom , photographing children as they developed their own images in Mardin, southeastern Turkey. The project works with local and migrant children, using analog photography to create a safe space for learning, storytelling, and imagination near the borders of Syria and Iraq.

More about their work: fotohane.org
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