"Kaza ve Kader" is out from Filigranes Editions!

with text by Christian Caujolle

"Since he began photography in 2001, Ali Taptik engages in chronic mid-fictional, semi-autobiographical account of his own life in Istanbul. Through his portraits of people or places, he reinvents special atmosphere, its own history ... In this series started in 2004, Ali Taptik explores possible links between accident and destiny - hence the title Kaza ve Kader. Between the element of chance and fate, he questioned the action of man on the course of his life. His work is in a dialectic of opposites, in a thin gap between the inside and outside, between the private and the public. Inner space, outside space, whose boundaries are blurred, in which he sailed in an incessant comings and goings. Photographs of Ali Taptik so are windows on the world inside a mirror."

Released : November, 10th 2009
Collection : Hors Collection
English/French
ISBN 13 : 978-2-35046-185-4
Format : 200 x 245
88 pages
Paperback
46 color photos

Filigranes Editions

türkçe ufak not: Filigranes Türkiye' ye ne yazıkki dağıtmıyor ama kısa süre Türkiye' de de satılacak.

Un panorama subjectif de la photographie contemporaine turque @ Maison des Metallos

du 12 au 29 novembre

94 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud - 75011 Paris

more info here...

Açık Ev - Open House "teaser"

Open House // Açık Ev, the new collaboration between Ali Taptik and Okay Karadayilar is already out but there won't be any official pictures on the web until the exhibition ends. Open House is a set of decontextualized once-functional photographs: interiors from real estate listings.

48 pages ,A6, 4 color printed on 60gr Enzo you can find it Kartal in the exhibition curated by Marcus Graf, Temporary Harassment.

Go and get it, there might be only few copies left!

Kaza ve Kader @ imageSingulieres - 2009

« Kaza ve Kader » *
Galerie Dock Sud.
Du 30 avril au 10 mai.

Ce jeune photographe turc nous invite à découvrir « son » Istanbul et à remiser nos préjugés.

Né en 1983, architecte de formation, Ali Taptik est autodidacte. Après un séjour en Suède, où il a effectué une partie de ses études, et un autre en France où il a été invité en résidence, il a choisi de vivre à Istanbul. Une ville dont il nous livre ici un étonnant portrait. On y découvre une « modernité » insoupçonnée avec des adolescents stanbouliotes pas si différents des nôtres. Nos vieux préjugés - la Turquie fait-elle partie de l’Europe ? - s ‘évaporent avec les images d‘Ali. Un travail d’une quarantaine de tirages couleur dans le droit-fil du nouveau style documentaire. Ali Taptik travaille aujourd’hui comme photographe, producteur de films et critique pour différents journaux turcs.

* " Accident et Destin "

Viewing Restricted : [Re]presenting Poverty

Jessica Dimmock/ Subhash Sharma /Mishka Henner /Sharron Lovell/ Ali Taptik :
Five Photographers Look at Poverty in Five cities of the world:

When : 29-April to 13-Jun 2009
Where : The Atrium,London School Of Economics

LSE Photography Initiative exploring representations of poverty.
Viewing Restricted : [Re]presenting Poverty is a major new exhibition which sets out to explore different notions, representations and manifestations of ‘poverty’ within a global context. The exhibition features newly commissioned work in film and photography by five artists who examine poverty in its many guises in Five different cities New York,Mumbai,Shanghai,London and Istanbul.

The participating artists are:
Jessica Dimmock (New York): Jessica Dimmock captures the experiences of impoverished patients trapped in a public hospital hidden in the heart of New York and cheek-by-jowell with the city’s well-to-do.

Mishka Henner (London) : Mishka Henner examines the growing spatial segregation between rich and poor in Hackney, one of London’s poorest boroughs historically. Through photographs, text and audio, he considers people’s relationship to the urban environment in private and public spaces.

Sharron Lovell (Shanghai) : Sharon Lovell charts two migrant families’ experiences in Shanghai. Working with a barber and vegetable seller, who tell her their stories, she portrays their lives in an interactive multi-media project that they helped to edit.

Ali Taptik (Istanbul) : Ali Taptik traces contentious redevelopment projects in historic districts of Istanbul such as Sulukule, staying on the border between public and private.

Subhash Sharma (Mumbai): Subhash Sharma follows poor Mumbaikers’ on their day off, capturing the varied pleasures of leisure in the city’s diverse locales.

Presenting contrasting styles and approaches to their ‘subject’, the artists reveal hidden and untold stories of communities and individuals in contrasting geographical, social and cultural contexts, where the issue of poverty is often underwritten by politics of class, race and migration. Mindful of issues of voyeurism, objectification and condescension, the exhibition and related events series aim to challenge thinking and encourage debate about the conventional modes and mechanisms through which poverty is often represented and understood.

http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/viewingrestricted.htm