2013年2月16日 星期六

Turkey的變遷與認同


George Georgiou
(b. 1961)   Lives and works in Europe, Turkey 


 

<Elazig, 2006>
Archival Pigment Print
30" x 40"
Edition: 7 

George Georgiou (b. 1961) has photographed extensively in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Turkey for the last decade. His photographs focus on transition and identity and how people negotiate the space they find themselves in. 

He has received several awards including two World Press Photo prizes (2003 & 2005), The British Journal of Photography project prize (2010), Pictures of the Year International first prize for Istanbul Bombs (2004) , and a Nikon Press Award UK for photo essay 2000, and has shown at MOMA.


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 George Georgiou 長期在巴爾幹、東歐、土耳其地區從事攝影工作。他的攝影作品大都關於社會變遷和身份認同,以及人們如何面對他們自己的生活空間

他已經獲得了幾項大獎,包括兩次世界新聞攝影獎(2003年及 2005 年),英國攝影雜誌專案計劃獎 (2010 年),  伊斯坦堡最佳國際攝影年度一等獎(伊斯坦堡的爆炸事件圖片)。並在紐約M0MA 辦過展覽。



Turkey: East to West


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<North East Anatolia>, 2007


George Georgiou  <Turkey> :

"Turkey is a strategically important nation, poised geographically and symbolically between Europe and Asia. But the tensions at the heart of Turkey are becoming increasingly severe. A struggle is taking place between modernity and tradition, secularism and Islamism, democracy and repression—often in unlikely and contradictory combinations. It is these contradictions the work addresses and the complexities of a large country that was a former imperial empire searching for a modern identity.

While living in Turkey for four and a half years, I was surprised at how quickly change was taking place: landscapes, towns, and cities reshaped, an extensive road network under construction, town centers "beautified," and large apartment blocks springing up at a rapid rate around every town and city. Almost always, the architecture and infrastructure follow the same blueprint. Cities are becoming carbon copies of each other.

This modernization is designed to handle the mass migration from village to city that is transforming Turkey. Istanbul, a city of a million people in 1960, is now one of the world's largest urban sprawls with an estimated population of over 15 million. The migration is raising a host of new issues. One of the most immediate concerns is the rapid disintegration of community in Turkish villages and towns.

Turkey is often seen as the country that will bridge the gap between the West and the Middle East. At the moment Turkey is at a political crossroads that will define the very nature of the country.

My work seeks to address and question the concept of East and West and the process of modernization, urbanization, and national identity that is happening against a rising tide of nationalism and religion. I have chosen to represent the changes by focusing on the quiet everyday life that most people in Turkey experience. "





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