Who is Çerkes Karadağ? (1953 – Kars- Kağızman)
“Photography is an art that raises instinctive impulses in the presence of certain realities.”
Education:
1972- Naci Gökçe High School-AĞRI
1978- Gazi Education Institute Painting Department-ANKARA
1985- Gazi University Education Faculty Graphics Department, Bachelor’s Degree Completion-ANKARA
Professional Business and Art Life:
Art photographer and writer. He worked in various jobs as a graphic designer, advertising director, publisher, promotional photographer and Film Inspection Board member from 1971 to the present. He prepared black and white art calendars and artistic posters for commercial organizations. He prepared professional magazines and union newspapers. He started his civil service life in 1978 at the Ministry of Culture Publications Department and worked as a proofreader in National Culture and Translation magazines. Later, he was transferred to the Ministry’s Cinema Department and started working in the Show and Festival Branch. He actively participated in the film weeks and film shows of many countries. In 1987, he left his duties at the Ministry of Culture and founded the advertising and promotional photography workshop “FOTOART”.
He carried out many advertising and promotional campaigns throughout his professional career. He took photographs for commercial catalogs and brochures. He prepared various cultural books, artist catalogs and artistic materials. In addition to the photography seminars he gave in public institutions, he gave conferences and seminars on photography and the art of photography at some universities. He made over 100 slide shows from 1977 to 1990. His works were exhibited in national and international photography competitions and mixed exhibitions in Turkey and abroad, won many awards and were accepted into collections. He participated in many panels, symposiums, panel discussions and biennials in Turkey as a speaker and artist and presented papers on photography aesthetics and artistic language. He wrote many articles and essays on the art of photography and contemporary photography in art magazines and newspapers. He regularly wrote portrait articles on the page allocated to him in the Siyah-Beyaz Newspaper published in Ankara for a year.
From 1989 onwards, he collected his own artistic works in photo albums that he published one after another. From 2000 onwards, he started publishing theoretical books that he prepared on the art of photography, the language of vision and aesthetics. Under the title of “Cities and Images”, he photographed many cities such as Prague, Budapest, Mersin/Mut, Gaziantep, Ankara, Bursa, Lefkoşa and İzmir. His artistic works and photographs were the subject of the works of many Turkish poets, writers, painters and ceramicists. From 1980 onwards, he photographed “Living Folk Poets” and later Ankara’s well-known artists, thinkers, scientists and politicians. During his professional photography career, he became known as a photographer who specialized in political promotion and portraits of politicians. He put an end to his professional photography work, which he continued until 2005, and moved to Istanbul.
Throughout his artistic career, he taught photography, advertising photography and studio photography at Süleyman Demirel, Yeditepe, Yakın Doğu, Doğuş University, Ankara Olgunlaşma Enstitüsü and Işık University, primarily at Hacettepe. He has participated in many book fairs and met with his readers at book signings. Some of his theoretical books have been translated into English and published by Amazon and offered for sale in many countries around the world. He is currently working on completing his theoretical photography collection in his studio in Istanbul, in addition to his painting and photography works. He participates in the events of many art associations and art organizations as a panelist, jury member and as a talker.
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