Cengiz Yar – The Click

A conflict photographer’s guide to shooting protests

Photographer Cengiz Yar has spent years working on stories around situations of unrest and conflict; from the wars in Iraq and Syria to protests in Thailand and Ferguson, MO. As the Black Lives Matter movement spreads around the world, photographers have

What is life really like for a conflict photographer?

Cengiz Yar has seen a few things in his time. But it was away from the frontlines that he came to value a universal right: having a patch to call one’s own.

Post date January 21, 2020
Post categories In War
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The Documentary Photography Issue VII: Home, reimagined

It feels as if our relationship with the idea of home is changing. Across the world, nationalism finds itself dancing freely with far-right politics, while political divisions have chopped families right down the middle, transforming previously tight-kni

Post date January 13, 2020
Post categories In Books
Tags Alexia Webster, Cengiz Yar, Cristina Garcia Rodero, Diana Markosian, Ernest Cole, Gideon Mendel, Mark Neville, Michael Jang, Miranda Barnes, Motoyuki Daifu, Sandy Carson, Sohrab Hura, Terra Fondriest, Ying Ang

NY Times portfolio review Cengiz Yar

Syria is in ruins. A once beautiful and historic land built along trading routes, boasting some of the oldest cities in human history, cities are almost entirely reduced to rubble

Link:
http://lejournaldelaphotographie.com/entries/11053/ny-times-portfolio-review-cengiz-yar

Post date April 17, 2013
Post categories In Portfolios & Galleries
Tags Cengiz Yar