Personal Work
Cities & Streets
Los Angeles, 2009-2025
The city I’m trying to figure out.
Part of a series LA Ordinary, exhibited by Mundaaaang Mag at Angel City Brewery with ArtShareLA,
and at the Los Angeles, I’m Yours Exhibition at IDOLWILD gallery.
San Francisco, 2014-2015
Portland, 2014-2015
Sarandë, Albania, 2014
This series captures life in Sarandë, a coastal city in southern Albania. After the fall of communism, rapid and uneven development left many buildings unfinished. Within these structures, residents have made homes, adapting to the conditions around them. The images show resilience and resourcefulness against the backdrop of the Ionian Sea, the city’s natural beauty, and the growing presence of tourism.
Bodrum, Turkey 2016
This series documents Bodrum, a coastal city on the Aegean Sea, during the off-season. Once a quiet fishing town, Bodrum has grown into a major tourist destination, with rapid development and infrastructure struggling to keep pace. In winter, the streets are empty of visitors, and everything is still. The beauty of the Aegean coast and Bodrum’s historic architecture with white walls and blue doors, and windows remain, but everything else is stacked and set aside until next summer. Time for the cold winter breeze and no tourists in sight.
Bozcaada, 2015
Ordu, 2014
My Mother’s birthplace, my grand-grand father’s home. An abandonded school, picking fruit from the trees.
Kerpe, 2013
The Intense Urban Sprawl in ‘Developing’ Türkiye, Istanbul, 2014
This series documents Istanbul’s rapid urban expansion under the Justice and Development Party era, continuing into 2026. High-rise apartment blocks and large-scale construction projects have transformed the cityscape, obscuring the historic silhouette of Istanbul and layering concrete across the horizon. Older residents are displaced to make way for developments they cannot afford, while many buildings are neglected or fail to meet safety codes, leaving a city still recovering from the 1999 7.4-magnitude earthquake that claimed 17,480 lives, even more vulnerable.
The photographs capture the overwhelming density of a metropolis growing faster than it can sustain.
