Alican Akcol
Landscape
Light, distance and silence — the landscapes that taught me how to look.
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Since sixteen
I saved up for my first camera at 16, and haven’t put one down since. Growing up in a seaside town on the southern coast of Turkey, I honed my observational skills among the bustle of seasonal holiday-makers and in the silence of the natural landscapes that were my solitary haunts.
About AlicanSix ways of seeing
06 collections · 271 photographs
Landscape
What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
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Fashion / Editorial
I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body — the patterns and stripes and all of that.
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Travel
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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Portrait
Photography is like sex. You know the ending. So how can you make it interesting?
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Wedding
Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.
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Commercial
Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?
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The Igorots
Portraits from the Cordillera — the mountain peoples of northern Luzon, the Philippines.
Philippines
Unacceptable economic contrast. Homeless people living in the shadows of those involved in million-dollar investments. Treated like rats. Nobody cares about their existence.
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Director of PhotographyIn “Street Photography Story”Travel Contest
A Journey of Mine
Limited edition prints of some of my most popular works are available, along with my 2016 photo book ‘A Journey of Mine’.
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