Murat Germen photographer

Photography is an opportunity for me to find things people ignore and bring them forward to make people reconsider their ideas. I am not interested in extraordinary things since they are always covered and receive more attention due to mankind's unending interest in celebrities, fame, sensation... I try to concentrate more on ordinary things and catch possible latent extraordinariness in regularity. It is easy to take ordinary photos of extraordinary things but more challenging to take extraordinary photos of ordinary things. It is possible to say I tend to concentrate on extracting beauty out of ordinary. I attempt to defamiliarize ordinariness, render it ambiguous by alienating it from its familiar context and finally make people to ‘see it afresh.’
Photography records the surface information, where one can only depict the exterior features of objects (color, texture, shape, etc.) and the resulting visual representation cannot incorporate the internal condition / content / soul. This is why I additionally aim to make photos that carry the many traces of time, multiple dimensions of space and finally create photos usually invisible to the naked eye. The basic idea is to form a personal visual accumulation through time and space that supposedly give us more insight / clues than a single photograph. I see multi-layered photography / chronophotography as gates to augmented perception, surreal encounters,
To see the lenticular artwork titled "Safeguard" exhibited at the group exhibit titled "Destruction 2011" please visit:
http://vimeo.com/23691263
To see projected artwork / video titled "Cigarette break disclosures" exhibited at Sanat Limani, Tophane Antrepo No.5, Istanbul, 2010, please visit:
http://vimeo.com/15654735
To see a 12-minute video of works between 2005-2011 (updated as of February 2011) please visit:
http://vimeo.com/20112376
To see the coverage of the solo exhibition titled Way at Istanbul Modern on Arte TV, please visit:
http://bit.ly/btbFcM

                                

                                         >>>Murat Germen