The 8th Symposium and Photograph Exhibition of Turkish Cypriots Who Left a Trace Behind, is being organized the by Eastern Mediterranean University Center for Cyprus Studies (DAÜ- KAM) and will commence with an opening ceremony on Friday, the 25th of November 2016 at the Rauf Raif Denktaş Culture and Congress Hall. The opening ceremony will begin at 09:30. A photograph exhibition will take place after the opening ceremony and the event will be followed by the symposium.
DAÜ-KAM Chair Prof. Dr. Naciye Doratlı gave information about the eighth edition of the “Turkish Cypriots Who Left a Trace Behind” organization which takes place once every two years and stated that the symposium will consist of three sessions in which Photo Deanna, Photo Kervan, Photo Atlas, Photo Umit and Photo Şık will be discussed.
Prof. Dr. Doratlı noted that the first session of the symposium will include presentations from researcher and writer Kadir Kaba, Cyprus Photography Association (FODER) Executive Board Member and Pharmacist Dr. Ayşe Gökyiğit as well a joint presentation from Near East University (NEU) Chair of Radio-TV and Film Studies Department Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fevzi Kasap and Çağlayan Dursun. The presentations are respectively titled “1948-1974 The Golden Age of Turkish Cypriot Photography”, “Photography is a Journey-Photo Deanna” and “Photo Şık in Turkish Cypriot Photography”.
The second session will include presentations from Dr. Ayşe Gökyiğit, a joint presentation from American University of Cyprus Faculty of Political Sciences Chair, Prof. Dr. Ulvi Keser and Selçuk University Faculty of Fine Arts academician Kübra Müezzinoğlu as well as photographer Buket Özatay. The seminars are respectively titled “Foto Şık, A Lifetime Devoted to Photography”, “Unknown Facts and Interesting Characteristics of Foto Şık” and “69 Years with Photography- Faik Atlas”.
The third session will include presentations from EMU-KAM Visual Arts Archive Project Manager Zehra Şonya and writer Kadir Kaba, NEU Culture Center Director and photographer Ceyhan Özyıldız as well as researcher and writer Hüseyin Kaba. The seminars are respectively titled “Ümit Ali (Esinler): A 75 year story”, “Tracing Ümit Ali Esinler’s (Foto Ümit) photography in Turkish Cypriot History from the 1950s to the 2000s: An analysis of critical sociopolitical photographs” and “Zeki Kervan”. The symposium comprising of a total of 9 presentations will end after the closing and evaluation sessions.
