Good Dog
“Photography is simply a means to communicate. I am not only referring to the spectators with my work, but also as photographer, to communicate with the world around me. Without photography, I would be mute. I see, I press a button on the camera, it is a commentary about life, about how I see, what I perceive, of things around me. Photography is my response to my social environment, my surroundings, to what affects me,a bridge between myself and life. as an individual,it is what I say to the world, my questionning . It is the most simple way of getting close to myself of who I am, what I want or fear, my vulnerability.”
The emotional aspect of these pictures in “Good Dog” are physically unstable. Yusuf Sevinçli doesn’t linger. He walks, explores, observes, moves on. He is constantly capturing different morsels of life that together create unity. It is a sort of homeless, wandering photography that rejects the stability and serenity of home, visually, making it alive. The subjects become pieces assembled revealing the matter that is the representation of reality through the artists’ eye. Emotion is provoked unexpectedly far from the beaten track, revealing its true nature.
Biography
After earning a communications degree from Marmara University in 2003, Sevinçli enrolled in a documentary photography Master Class in Sweden. His earliest personal works began there, including “Good Dog” which were exposed individually and collectively in Turkey and around the world (Mois de la Photo in Moscou, PhotoBiennale in Thessalonica, Fotografia Europa Reggio Emilia in Italie, Fotografie Noorderlicht in Holland, FotoFreo in Australia…). After 2008, his work was featured in books and collective photography works (“Image Makers, Image Takers : The Essential Guide to Photography”, by Thames&Hudson) and in various international magazines. Yusuf Sevinçli was a subject of Laura Serani’s projection in last year’s edition of Circulation(s), Emerging Photography. He lives and works in Istanbul.
