Born in 1985 in Istanbul, my childhood was shaped by my curiosity about different cultures. Those days, when I decorated the walls of our house with flags of various countries and imagined the stories of different cultures by looking at maps, were the first steps of my journey today. My sociology education added an academic depth to this passion. The underlying reason behind my photography adventure was the desire to record cultural traces that were disappearing. This instinct was perhaps the ruined Armenian tombstones in the mist that I saw in the highlands of Rize, my hometown, in my childhood. Years later, in 2004, my attempt to document Istanbul's Ottoman tombstones with a simple camera was a reflection of this memory. The stories of my father immortalizing construction workers in Libya with a Polaroid taught me that photography is a “narrative”... I produce documentary photography projects on cultural heritage, refugees and the daily life of different cultures.