Emin Özmen - Olay René Groebli

Emin Özmen - Olay René GroebliMACK 2023 Meaning event or incident, Olay is a powerful chronicle of a tumultuous decade in Turkey, tirelessly documented by Emin zmen. This first book by zmen is a retrospective of his work to date, recounting the photographers homeland in a ceaseless state of turmoil, hit by dramatic events: a failed coup dtat, popular uprisings, natural disasters, political purges, and ongoing military operations. This vivid and fast paced series of black and white

‘I am thinking of a project that is too large

Most significantly

and intimacy

and an expression of the interplay between uniformity and personality that continues to shape society

and in general

Full color

Brought together here

Suzuki’s early photographs came to light by pure coincidence: his son’s wife discovered the negatives and developed them as contact sheets

among them – take on new implications when shrewdly juxtaposed with digital images and video screenshots of the Twin Towers attacks

Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray

As the narrative progresses

one where the borders of truth and lie collapse against the rigid confinements of the image