A Turkish Hospital: Pandemic Photos

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When the pandemic struck, I had the chance to photograph the treatment processes of COVID-19 patients who came to the hospital where I work in Turkey. Since I'm a serious...

Through the Looking Glass

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For me, the view through glass block symbolizes the way my sense of the world has become distorted by these past two years of living through a pandemic. So much...

Evening Out 2021

I was inspired to paint "Evening Out 2021" after finally going out to dinner for the first time in nearly two years. The date was December 16, 2021, and the...

Surviving the Pandemic in Style

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I love walking the streets of New York City. Camera in hand. The tension between the old and new, the urban and the chic. Especially here, at an upscale foodcourt...

Deeper Meanings #017 – Unknown Self

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The pandemic changed a lot of things for a lot of us. In October 2020, I left Berlin after living there for six years and was about to move to...

As If…

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Sign of the times: My news-addled friends, the ones who used to read three papers a day, have begun tuning out. I'm thinking of two in particular who, over their...

Infinite Reflection

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At the Sitges train station (in Barcelona), I was waiting to catch the train to Vilanova. I noticed that my reflection was also waiting for the train. Surrounded by an...

ATK Portraits, Bangkok

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The Khlong Toey slum, south of the expressway and north of the port, is the largest and oldest slum of Bangkok, with up to 1.2 million dwellers. Khlong Toey has...

PseudoSymphonics for Dystopian Times

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In keeping with the state of the country and the world, I'm encouraging myself to access existential angst. I believe that this new four-part composition has the dystopian ambience I...

Spinning Our Wheels

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Back in March 2020, our world as we know it turned upside down. As we tried to make sense of the fact that we were stuck in the middle of...