My country is in a very critical phase of developing a process of collective suicide. Because the subject is not an individual but a whole society -which actually is not "a" society but many hostile societies in the same framed part of the universe- this is not a simple decision but a complex proces…

8 years ago / 488 visits

No need to repeat the question. And it is not easy to accept the answer: maybe. Plus, I guess not. You add 34 photos of an event. Each of these photos are viewed between 57 and 90 times. So you have to have app. 74 views and ca. 2500 total. But your total view count was 20.xxx before and 20.xxx afte…

9 years ago / 741 visits / 2 comments

We had a -new- mining disaster with ca. 380 dead fathers, sons, brothers, friends. We even don't know how many bodies are burried down there after three days because we cannot reach the real figures. The mining companies and the state are responsible for all info. But who can trust the killer about…

10 years ago / 994 visits / 2 comments / 1 person likes

Since days I am editing the photos of ancient cities from my last trip. Stones, stones, trees, very old stones, very old trees... Now I've stopped with a question in my mind. If I close my eyes I can see it: It is written on various languages on stones and wood and was getting bigger and bigger: Is…

10 years ago / 1 188 visits / 8 comments / 1 person likes

As a human being with an endless enthusiasm for history I am lucky for being born here. If I am using the words "lucky" and "born here" in a sentence together I have to mention immediately that I am talking only about the ground on which many civilisations have followed each other and let so much be…

10 years ago / 496 visits

I was doing some tests with a new video camera and heavy tele lenses and at the end I've decided to make a funny short movie: Birds in the Rear Window. Yes, there are scary music in horror movie style and there are birds! And everything happens outside of my rear window. Using 300 mm lenses with a s…

10 years ago / 593 visits / 1 comment / 1 person likes

No doubt: If you're making photos and want to show these to others, the internet is the most proper place and environment for this. And the common way is to have a photostream, say here. You can arrange how to show your work, build albums, put titles, explanations, add poetry or even music. You can…

11 years ago / 844 visits / 4 comments / 3 people like

I've finished to edit, prepare and upload almost everything I've planned to put here. With additions: some newer photos I've made during this time. So I have an exhibition here. And an internet exhibition gives us the chance to make it always better. I believe this group of photos has a meaning beca…

11 years ago / 490 visits

Fire on streets. Teargas in lungs. Chemicals in water cannons. Police in downtown. Teargas cannisters and rubber bullets to the heads. 3 deads. More than 10 young people with lost eyes. Body at home, soul on streets. Watching the medical doctors being arrested because of helping the wounded. Listeni…

11 years ago / 926 visits / 10 comments / 5 people like

Hi! In my corner in Ipernity I have some photos which, I hope, are telling something. I am trying to tell stories with films, mostly. I make documentaries, shorts and experimentals. My name is Ümit Kivanç. I have a website about my films but this is mainly Turkish, there are only a few English pages…

11 years ago / 646 visits / 3 comments / 1 person likes