Photographer
Ali Besikci
My name is Ali Besikci. I’m from Istanbul, Turkey where I lived until I moved to Bologna in , Italy where I'm currently attending the second year of DAMS (Drama, Art and Music Studies) Degree Programme in the University of Bologna. I started shooting with a Canon EOS600D about two years ago, but since I have found the old AE-1 lying around somewhere in my room I have been mostly interested in to analog shooting. I usually use Kodak200 and sometimes Fuji200. In August, 2017 I've published my first photo book "In Between" (you can find the pdf document on - http://alibesikci.com). I see the act of photographing as a kind of meditation. With the click of the shutter, the present moment becomes very evident, blurring every confusion, leaving you with a raw souvenir of the reality that becomes a part of the past the moment after you take it. So I don’t really know exactly what subject I’m trying to capture. They don't necessarily represent time or place for me. They are mostly taken intuitively, searching some feeling that I don't know yet. Behind a camera everything seems to have the same value for me, or non at all. They later tell me what caught my interest and my response to it. In this and many other ways I learn about myself through them.
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