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The Third Istanbul Slide Days
Istanbul - Turkish Daily News
The "Third Istanbul Slide Days" will take place in Istanbul between October
17-25 at a number of cultural and business centers in Beyoglu.
"Slide Days" seeks to bring together teachers and students, amateurs and
professionals in the field of photography in order to create an open forum for
everyone interested in photography. The organizers believe that a slide show
forms a highly effective way of expression. However, while a number of
photographers prepare slide shows which are attended by packed audiences,
Turkish photographers and viewers have not fully discovered one another yet.
The Istanbul Slide Days offer a platform for photographers to share their work,
without creating an overly competitive atmosphere. This year, approximately 100
photographers will participate in the activity with 80 separate shows. Seeking
to create a qualitative development in the photographers' art, the Slide Days
include the following six categories: Stories, Press Photographs, Photography
and the Other Arts, First Presentations, Short Presentations and Independent
Presentations.
The opening of the Istanbul Slide Days took place with a cocktail party at the
Italian Culture Center on the evening of October 15. The photographers receive a
small royalty and the viewers have to pay a symbolic amount to attend the
presentations. Fethi Izan made the opening of the Slide Days representing the
organizing committee and presented his slide show "Constipated." Gultekin Cizgen,
who completed his 40th year as photographer this year, joined the evening with a
presentation called "Clik." Cizgen's presentation brings together the
photographer and the object of photography on the same plane.
Each slide will be shown at two different times in two separate locations that
have been designed for the slide shows. The following sponsors opened their
performance halls for the slide presentations: Akademi Istanbul, Fotografevi-Fujifilm,
IFSAK, Italian Culture Center, Turkcell and TURSAK.
One of the special events during the Slide Days is entitled "Respect." This
section pays homage to Mehmet Avcidirlar and Ozgen Ozgenal, two masters of photography who died recently.
Another special presentation is "The Guest Country." With the contributions of
the Dutch General Council, Wilco van Herpen, Martin Woolboer and Duco de Vries
presented their work on Saturday, October 17 at the Italian Culture Center.
Herpen's "Bike in Hand" can be seen at 3:00 p.m., Waalboer's "Living Rooms" can
be seen at 4:00 p.m. and de Vries' "Charisma in Craziness" can be seen at 5:00
p.m. The same presentations will be shown at IFSAK on October 18 at 2:00, 2:45
and 3:00 p.m.
The slide show includes a "Hasankeyf Special Section." This part is dedicated to
saving Hasankeyf, which has important historical, cultural and natural treasures.
Unfortunately, a dam being planned for the region is going to inundate the area.
The organizers of the slide show would like to contribute to the efforts to save
the region.
The "Slide Show Scholarship" is given to university students to encourage them
in their work. The scholarship was given to Mimar Sinan University students
Engin Kaban and Servet Dilber for their Hasankeyf project. Kaban and Dilber will
present "The Last Lights in Hasankeyf," sponsored by Utopia Photographs
Production Services Lt., on Saturday, October 17 at 2:00 p.m. as part of the
Hasankeyf Special Program. Another activity within the Hasankeyf program is the
presentation called "Spare Us, River Tigris" by the Hasankeyf volunteers.
Then there is a conference by Gultekin Cizgen called "Mathematical Visualization."
At the conference on Saturday, October 17 at 7:00 p.m. at the Italian Culture
Center, Cizgen will recount his artistic journey from painting to photography,
and from electronic visualization to digital presentation.
During the nine-day-long slide presentation, six shows that were widely popular
during the Second Slide Days show will be repeated. The shows to be repeated are
Resul Bastug's "Silent Boat," M. Emin Altan's "An Experimental Work: Cuba," Emre
Ermin's "The Story of a Sunflower, the Clouds and the Street," Bulent Akbas's "Dancing
With Colors," Suna Aktas and Yasemin Bay's "Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday Mothers, Sunday..." and Fethi Sabunsoy's "Impression."
The main sponsors of the 3rd Istanbul Slide Days are Park Maritime ve Hopa Port
Administration Lt., Hey Foods and Green Island Teas.
Kaynak
Istanbul - Turkish Daily News
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