Tag: Cengiz Yar

A conflict photographer’s guide to shooting protests

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

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/conflict-photographer-protests-black-lives-matter/

Plan ahead, pack well, and check in with a buddy: Cengiz Yar shares the lessons he’s learned so far.

June 13, 2020
What is life really like for a conflict photographer?

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.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/playlist-archive/cengiz-yar-the-grass-conflict-photography-iraq/

Photographer Cengiz Yar has seen things – from the rebels’ battle to oust Assad in Syria, to the human fallout of conflict in Iraq. But it was away from the frontlines that he truly came to value a universal right: having a patch to call one’s own.

January 21, 2020
The Documentary Photography Issue VII: Home, reimagined

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

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/the-documentary-photography-issue-vii-home-reimagined/

‘Home’ is both a physical and imagined space – a state and place of belonging. In our annual celebration of visual storytelling, join us as we spotlight the photographers capturing it in all of its wildly different guises.

January 13, 2020
NY Times portfolio review Cengiz Yar

Link: NY Times portfolio review Cengiz Yar | Le Journal de la Photographie

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

April 17, 2013