This week we are going to do things a little bit different. We are going to look at a few different projects that Cihan Bektas sent me. He is an Australian Photographer and Creative Artist.

Artist Statement:

I would define myself as self-taught. When I was nine years old, we moved to a big suburb. At age ten my father, who was not interested in art, gave me a manually operated Polaroid camera in order to photograph anything whatever I liked.

as a photographer, interested in how something rather ordinary can, in fact, become extraordinary. I am inspired by all things which are timeless and undefined.

All my work is influenced by dreams and surrealism.
I try to evoke and suggest things which will make the spectator dream and do the same.

SACRIFICE

We sacrifice ourselves, our true selves.
This work was an individual that expresses one perspective of what lies beneath. Fear of rejection and exposure, fear of loss, struggles to be truly honest and the fear that arises from deep pain.
Hurt was mad.

HUE

The idea was to make cinematic and narrative images.

Even if we think that this period, we live is very similar to each other, I wanted to explain these moods with human forms and the intensity of the colour textures that we cannot notice and that every period in the future will leave us many permanent marks in different ways.

LANI

This project is a discovery of identity in many different ways. The unique shapes and forms we create in today's life cover one of the main themes of this series. The meaning of the colors I used was a reflection of the identity expression in the model.

Faces are often depicted as digital, fragmented, veiled, or blurry, and these interventions refer to elements from cubism and surrealism, genres in which I find unexpected magic and extra beauty.