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cemre yeşil gönenli
Photographer / Visual Story Teller & Book Maker & Lecturer & Founder of FiLBooks, Istanbul
Cemre Yeşil is a Turkish photographer and artist living in Istanbul. Her BA in photography is from Istanbul Bilgi University
and she holds an MA in Visual Arts from Sabancı University. In 2017, she dropped out her practice-based PhD in London
College of Communication. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally including The Guardian, International
Centre of Photography New York, British Journal of Photography, Colors Magazine, La Fabrica, 6 mois, Istanbul Modern
Museum, and Salt Beyoğlu. Her 2020 book Hayal & Hakikat was the winner of Best Photobook of the year in PhotoEspana
2021 and the same book was shortlisted in Paris Photo Aperture Photobook Awards for the Photobook of the Year
Category and Historical Book Award in Recontres Arles 2021. She was also nominated for the Paul Huf Award of
Amsterdam Photography Museum FOAM, both in 2014 and 2021, for ING Unseen Talent Award 2016 and for Lead Awards
2016. British Journal of Photography - Ones to Watch issue (February 2015) introduced her amongst the 25 most
promising new talents in global survey of emerging photographers with the work ‘For Birds’ Sake’ (in collaboration with
Maria Sturm). The same work was finalist at PHE OjodePez Award for Human Values and Renaissance Photography Prize,
Arles Author Book Award and Prix Levallois. Her works are included in the collections of Houston Center for Photography,
New York Library, Istanbul Modern Museum, and RISD Library. She currently lectures on photography in Falmouth
University MA Photography and Istanbul Bilgi University BA Visual Communication Design.
She lauched her new latest book titled ‘Double Portrait’ as an independent continuation of her PhD research project which
was shortlisted in PhotoEspana 2021 Best Photography Book of the Year Award. The work is an outcome of 9 years of
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research and practical work on photographic double portraiture; A hybrid book of photographs and texts on mother's
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embrace and absence.
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She also works as a writer and curator. Cemre Yeşil is the founder of FiLBooks; a space dedicated to photo books, artist
talks and workshops which in 2017 became a publishing house in Karaköy, Istanbul.
based in istanbul
0090 532 224 12 62
Speaks
Turkish, English, Italian
Selected Exhibitions and Features Hayal & Hakikat, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Ist, Turkey, 2021 I am So Beautiful, So Beautiful by Charlotte Schimitz, curated by Cemre Yeşil Gönenli, Istanbul, Turkey, 2016 Double Portrait, Solo Exhibition, Verzesca Photography Festival, Verzesca, Switzerland, 2021 Trans Form Fault, Contemporary Turkish Photography, AFF Gallerie, Berlin, Germany, 2016 Double Portrait, Solo Exhibition, Milli Reasürans Galerisi, Ist, Turkey, 2021 For Birds’ Sake, Foto Istanbul, Turkey, 2015 What’s Your Name When You’re at Home?, Penumbra Foundation, New York, USA, 2021 Extraction from Milk Tooth Series, Group Exhibition, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015 Hayal & Hakikat, Format Photography Festival, Derby, UK, 2021 The Girl and the Dog, Latest Version, Group Exhibition, Daire Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015 Hayal & Hakikat, Copenhagen Photography Festival, Denmark,2021 For Birds’ Sake, Paraty Em Foco Festival Brasil, 2015 For Birds’ Sake, Life’s Realities in the Photo Book. Generali Foundation Study Center / Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria, 2020 OjodePez Human Values Award, 2015 Hayal & Hakikat, Video Installation, Tüyap Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey, 2019 Festival Internacional de Fotografia de Cabo Verde, 2014 Piet[r]à, Still Young Gallery, MIA, Milan Photo Fair, Italy, 2019 This was, Solo Exhibition, Daire Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014 Hayal & Hakikat, Salt Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey, 2019 This was, Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014 Becoming: Cure as Care, curated by Cemre Yeşil Gönenli, Daire Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018 For Birds’ Sake, fire-cracker.org, as August’s featured photographer, 2014 Piet[r]à, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilio, Italy, 2018 An/other, Landskrona Photo Festival, Sweden, 2014 Milk Tooth, The Planes are Flying Low Above Our Bodies, curated by Ahmet Polat, Addis Photo Fest, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia , 2018 Milk Tooth, Obscura Photo Festival, Asian Woman Photography Showcase, Georgetown, Penang, Malesia, 2014 Piet[r]à, Engaged, Active, Aware; Women’s perspectives Now, in Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb, Crotia, 2018 An/other, UFAT, Bursa, Turkey, 2014 Piet[r]à, Siyah Beyaz Gallery, Ankara, Turkey, 2018 This was, CosArtWalk Festival, Photo-installation, Tava Restaurant, London, UK, 2013 Piet[r]à, Studio Lampo, Francavilla Fontana, Italy, 2018 Second Eye Women Photographers from Turkey, Semiha Es Photography Symposium, Sismanoglo Megaro, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013 Piet[r]à, curated by Giuseppe Amedeo Arnesano, Castello Aragonese, Castro, Italy, 2018 When I was a Kid the Clouds Were Blue, Group Exhibition, Atelier de visu gallery / Gallery of les Beaux Arts de Marseille, France, 2013 Cars of Emirgan, Geniş Açı – Dergiden Proje Ofisine, DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018 Raw Talent, Hoxton Gallery. London, UK, 2013 For Birds’ Sake, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Osthang Darmstadt, Germany, 2018 An/other, Close Quarters. Istanbul Modern Museum, Group Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013 The Beauty of Concept, PlatoSanat, curated by Marcus Graft, Istanbul, Turkey, 2017 The Other Art Fair, Art Below Stand, London, UK, 2013 For Birds’ Sake – Format Festival, Derby, UK, 2017 Gelatista, Art Below - Holborn London Underground, London, UK, 2013 Piet[r]à, Ti racconto il mare. Borghi Storici Marinari di Puglia, Museo Archeologico, Castro, Italy, 2017 Photography and the Contemporary Imaginary, Research Show. Group Exhibition LCC. Well Gallery. London, UK, 2013 Ev/ Home, Müze Evliyagil Ankara, curated by Derya Yücel, Ankara, Turkey, 2017 Marseille seen by 100 photographers, Group Exhibition, Gallery of La bibliothèque départementale, Marseille, France, 2013 Fire Crackers, Female Photographers Now, edited by Fiona Rogers, International Centre of Photography, New York, USA, 2017 Ateliler de Visu, Workshop of Antoine D’agata, Group Slideshow, Marseille, France, 2012 For Birds’ Sake, Daire Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, 2016 When I was a Kid the Clouds Were Blue, Shared, 5533 IMÇ, Group Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012 For Birds’ Sake, La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain, 2016 When I was a Kid the Clouds Were Blue, Group Exhibition, UFAT, Bursa, Turkey, 2012 For Birds’ Sake, Pavlo’s Dog Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2016 We Have not Lived through Such a Thing, GFİ, Solo Exhibition, İstanbul, Turkey, 2012 For Birds’ Sake, Organ Vida International Photography Festival Zagreb, Crotia, 2016 When I was a Kid the Clouds Were Blue, Solo Exhibition, Nafpaktos, Greece, 2012 For Birds’ Sake, Bitume Photofest, Lecce, Italy, 2016 Blowback, Street Exhibition & Photo-performance in Times Square, New York, USA, 2011 For Birds’ Sake, Visualleader 2016, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany, 2016 Blowback, SVA Photography Residency, Group Exhibition, New York, USA, 2011
Education Awards
Winner, Best Photography Book of the Year, PhotoEspana, 2021 with Hayal & Hakikat
2012- 2017 PhD Photography, London College of Communication, University of Arts London (Drop Out)
Shortlisted, Historical Book Award, Recontres Arles, 2021 with Hayal & Hakikat
2010-2012 MA Visual Arts, Teaching Assistant, Sabancı University
Shortlisted for Best Photography Book of the Year, PhotoEspana, 2021 with Double Portrait
2006-2010 BA Photography and Video, İstanbul Bilgi University Shortlisted for the Photobook of the Year, Paris Photo Photobook Awards 2020 with Hayal & Hakikat
Shortlisted for Fotografia Europea 2018 with Piet(r)a
2001-2006 Galileo Galilei Italian High School
Shortlisted for La Fabrica Dummy Award 2017 with Piet(r)a
Shortlisted for Guernsey Photography Festival 2017 with Piet(r)a
Teaching
Piet(r)a was featured in Icon, YET Magazine, IGNANT, PhMuseum, Beraber, 2017
Nominated for ING Unseen Talent Award 2016
Shortlisted for Prix du Livre d'Auteur - Les Rencontres d'Arles 2016 with For Birds' Sake Book, 2016
Visualleader 2016, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2016
May 2017- ….
Falmouth University, MA Photography, online tutor Nominated for Lead Awards 2016
February 2014- …. Category Architecture and Stilllive-Photography of the Year Nominted for Henri-Nannen-Preis 2016
Istanbul Bilgi University, Facult of Communication, BA Photography and Video, part- time lecturer, Nominated for Paraty Em Foco Festival Brasil, 2016
‘Contemporary Photography’, ‘History of Photography’ & ‘Documentary Photography’ Category Architecture and Stilllive-Photography of the Year with For Birds' Sake,2016
Fall & Spring Terms
Selected for Organ Vida International Photography Festival Zagreb, 2016
September 2017- 2019
Invited to Bitume Photofest Lecce, 2016
Bahçeşehir University, Facult of Communication, BA Photography and Video, part- time lecturer,
‘Photobook Making” Finalist at PHE OjodePez Award for Human Values 2015 with For Birds' Sake, 2015
June 2015 - …. Finalist Open Call Festival Internacional de Fotografia de Cabo Verde 2014 with “For Birds' Sake”, 2014
A number of photography related workshops in FiLBooks, Istanbul. ‘Confronting Fear’ over-night assignment, MAGNUM AGM Masterclass @Milk Gallery, New York. 2014
June 2013- 2016 Nominated for FOAM Paul Huf Award 2014
Koc University, Istanbul, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, BA Media and Visual Arts,
Press’ Category, Gold Winner, Prix de la Photographie Competition Paris, 2011
Lecturer - ‘Creative Photography and History of Photography’,
Portrait’ Category,Official Selection, Prix de la Photographie Competition Paris, 2011
Summer Terms
Artist Residencies
September 2010- June 2012,
Sabancı University, Istanbul, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, VCDVA Department,
Teaching Assistant
February 2009 -.February 2012, İstanbul Bilgi University Youth Studies Unit
August 2017, Lecce, Italy Bitume Residence by The Region of Puglia
Kısa Dalga Youth Center, Photography Workshop Trainer
February 2012, Marseille, France Atelier de Visu, Photography Residency (directed by Antoine d’agata)
July 2011, New York, USA Photography Artist Residency, School of Visual Arts
Books
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Double Portrait, published by FiLBooks, 2021 For Birds’ Sake, 2016
Double Portrait is a reverie in the form of images and words. A communication of an artistic calling through photography and an archive of a A symbol of schism and confluence, a transcontinental city, Istanbul has always been the inspiration for great stories. But this is not a story
personal journey of joy and sorrow that comes with love and birth; fear of loss, identity, childhood, motherhood, memory; a questioning of about Istanbul; it is a story from the female vantage point about how a group of men devote their lives to raising goldfinches and
portrait traditions and the psychological aspect of photography. Double Portrait is about remembering what it means to be held, and greenfinches: a mysterious bond full of contradictions, love, possession and pleasure; the contradictions between the masculine and
experiencing what it means to hold regardless of cultural norms related to gender. feminine; the female caress alongside the power of men; caregivers who compete for the bird that sings the best… And two women who learn
A process which records 9 years of research into a real-time system of observation on the mother-child relationship through different lenses. how to listen and speak.
Double Portrait is a cartography towards the complex relationship between mother-child and the unfolding process of motherhood. It is also a
visual response to the unimaginable death of everyone’s mother. It speaks of something we all know about emotionally, but can’t articulate all OCC Retrospective, 2014 - [orta format güncelleme #14 ]
that easily. We know it when we see it. We know it when we feel it. We know it when it is absent. We carry it when we have been held and we carry This book is a reflection to the Orhan Cem Çetin’s retrospective exhibition curated by Marcus Graft which took place in Plato Art
it when we have not been held. Space / Istanbul between 18 December 2013 - 26 January 2014. It was published in ortaformat issue #14 and 500 hard copies
were distrubuted by ortaformat.
Hayal & Hakikat, 2020, co-published by Gost Books & FiLBooks, 2020
The photographs in his book depict the hands of prisoners from the early 20th century, drawn from the photograph albums of Abdul Hamid II,
the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Hayal & Hakikat (translated as Dream & Fact), by Cemre Yeşil Gönenli, takes the form of two booklets — This was, 2013
A Handbook of Forgiveness and A Handbook of Punishment — which can be viewed side by side. Abdul Hamid II utilised photography as a tool “This Was” project with its specific focus on personal memory, exposes the cultural conditions of sharing photographs in social
for documenting the modernisation of the Ottoman Empire at the start of the 20th Century. A photography studio was build inside the Yıldız media and demands us to reconsider our conception, either professional or amateur, of the status of the “image”. This project
Palace and albums reproduced and sent across the world as a testament to the progress of the Ottoman Empire. Abdul Hamid II himself rarely
also has a very intrinsic, very poetic characteristic, which is in fact extremely far from intellectualism, so to speak.’’ -AHU
left Istanbul but commissioned photographs so he could become acquainted with his own country, otherwise invisible to his eye.
ANTMEN
How We See: Photobooks made by Women, by 10x10 books, 2018
A “book on books” anthology that documents How We See, a traveling public and hands-on reading room of a global range of 100 photography We have not lived through such a thing / Biz öyle bir şey yaşamadık, 2012
books by female photographers. In addition to all one hundred books in the How We See Reading Room, the publication includes three essays, This work is about the relationship between photography and romantic love; Memory photographs have always coexisted with
an annotated history, reference lists of historical books by women photographers, an author index and a visual index.
the feeling of love; but love can not exist without photography either. This work is an analysis of the co-existence of 'the
Becoming: Cure as Care, 2018
romantic love affair' and its photographs installed in people’s houses.
This book travels through various stages of change depending on the issues of age, gender roles, responsibility, love, sexuality, politics, culture,
and nature. All the works by 24 artists in this book are strongly tied to the concept of growing; both the pleasure and the pain of it. The Cut / Kesik, 2010
individual works stand alone while at the same time laying entwined in each other’s power in order to make each other grow into bigger A documentary kit project, a visual research, a 35 min. documentary film with a book of photographs, illustrations and related
meanings and to create more possibilities. This is a story of picturing “becoming”and of becoming “pictures.” edited and written by Cemre Yeşil.
text, about female genital cutting, it’s effects for an individual and for a society and the decision of abondoning female genital
Female Photographers Now, published by Thames & Hudson, edited by Fiona Rogers & Max Hougton, 2018
cutting in West Africa.
A vivid showcase of work by more than thirty of the world’s leading contemporary female documentary photographers.
As publisher & Editor:
Piet(r)a, 2017 Bedava Gergedan, by: Orhan Cem Çetin, 2018
This collaborative work stems from a legendary story from Castro, in South Italy. The Region of Puglia commissioned artists Cemre Yeşil Tut Keep, by: Orhan Cem Çetin, 2018
(Turkey) and Alice Caracciolo (Italy) to make a photographic work inspired by the legend titled The Turk’s Wife. I am So Beautiful, So Beautiful, by: Charlotte Schmitz 2016
Selected Panels and Talks COPENHAGEN PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL, Artist talk and book presentations, June 2021 FORMAT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL, Hayal & Hakikat, Control Symposium, 2021 10X10 PHOTOBOOKS, Hayal & Hakikat Book Lauch, in Conversaiton with Sabrina Mandanici, 2020 KA PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP, Baksana Ne Getirdim, Artist talk and book presentations, October 2019 SALT BEYOĞLU, Artist Talk, Presentation and Workshop Leader for the project: Picturing the Encyclopdia of Istanbul, June 2019 FOTOGEN, Artist Talk BORDERLESS ARTBOOK DAYS, Guest Speaker, April 2019 FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY, The Living Image: Falling into Archival Imagery as a Photographic Methodology, International Photography Symposium, 2019 FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY, Artist Talk, 2018 INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF PHOTOGRAPHY @NEW YORK, Fire Crackers: Female Photographers Now, Artist Talk, 2017 ISTANBUL PHOTOBOOK FESTIVAL, Guest Speaker, 2017 UNIVERSITY OF ARTS LONDON, RNUAL, 2017 ORGAN VIDA PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL, Artist Talk, 2016 BITUME PHOTOFEST, Artist Talk, 2016 ISTANBUL PHOTOBOOK FESTIVAL, Artist Talk, 2016 FUAM, Mimar Sinan University, Artist Talk, 2015 İTÜFK 6. Fotoğraf Buluşmaları, Istanbul Technical University, 2014 IFFOT Fotoğraf Bulusmaları, Istanbul University, 2014 UFAT 9, Uludağ University, 2014 Semiha Es International Women Photographers Symposium, Istanbul 2013 UNIVERSITY OF ARTS LONDON, RNUAL, 2013 Documentarist Istanbul, ‘Which Human Rights’, Salt Beyoglu, 2012 Ankara University, Woman Studies Department, "Gender Studies and Violence", guest lecturer, Ankara 2010
Other Experiences
May 2011
Santralistanbul, Editorial Photographer
April 2011-
KREK Theather, Stage Photographer
October 2010 - ...
Actors Without Borders Istanbul, Stage Photographer, Publication Designer
September 2009
Young Lives Foundation, Publication Designer
September 2009
Trainings, Seminars and Workshops
“Attract Attention to Development” Photography Competition ,
Organized by Community Volunteers Foundation with World Bank,
Competition Jury Member
June2009 - September 2009
“Ev” Movie Co-Producer
March 2009-March 2010
Dionadworks Advertising Agency, Photographer, Graphic Designer
November 2013 May 2011
September 2010- September 2012
Semiha Es International Women Photographers Symposium, Istanbul Exploring The Margins of Body, Mind and Culture, Workshop by Diana Blok.
Theatre 0.2 Corporate
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Amsterdam
StagePhotographer, Publication
Video Design September 2012- March 2013
Critical Context Seminar Series, London College of Communication March 2010- May 2011
January 2009
-Body and Subject Contemporary Photography Seminar Series, Istanbul Modern Museum,
Community Volunteers Foundation,Traning Department Training Department
-Gerhard Richter and Archival Portraiture by Orhan Cem Çetin and Murat Germen
Promotion Film shooting, Film editing
April 2008 -Landscape & Visuality -Documenting the Staged Location,
“Living Library” Project, Community Volunteers Foundation, -The Quick and The Dead - Cinematic/Photographic" -Image, Representation and Ideology,
Publication Designer, Photographer, Project Documentary Film, Film editing -The Photographic Document -New Possibilities in Documentary Photograhy
April 2008 -The distribution of the aesthetic -The use of the maquette in photography,
Gepgenç Festival, (Civil Society Organizations Festival) -Conceptual Photography -Photography and Text
Photography and Video Department Coordinator of the Gepgenç Festival -Provocative Materials For The Pursuit of Ideas"
April 2008 August 2007
“Gaste” urban newspaper,(year:13,number:112) February 2013 Toscana Photography Workshop, Italy by: Mark Abouzeid and Javier Ideami
Photographer, Travel Department Writer Photography and Contemporary Imaginary Research Hub,
March 2008 London College of Communication June 2006
“Foma” music band, music video Assistant Director Photography Project Development Workshop, Galata Fotoğrafhanesi by: Yücel Tunca
September 2007 February 2013
“The International” movie , İstanbul shootings, directed by: Tom Tykwer RNUAL Meeting, University of Arts London July 2005
Assistant Director Crew, Assistant Berklee Music Collage, Umbriaa Jazz Clinics Drums Department Perugia, Italy
June 2006- July 2006 December 2012
Digital Arts Production Agency, Intern The Edge of Our Thinking: Research in Art and Design Conference,
January 2006 Royal College of Art, London
“ 50.Anniversary of our Smile
Promotion Book, Archieve researcher
June 2005
“2+1” tv program plot episode, Assistant Director
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