Altay Tuz

Altay Tuz was born in 1993 in Denizli, Turkey. He is a recent graduate of Photography from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. In 2016 he studied at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg in the class of Adam Broomberg; Oliver Chanarin as an exchange student. His work has been exhibited at several international photo-festivals, group exhibitions, as well as solo national shows. He currently lives and works in İstanbul, Turkey.

If we consider the space as a place, where their residents shape their own ways of living, these places become mirrors for the people or societies who create them. You can read a culture and its way of living by the space it creates. ‘’Space’’ is a sociological plane for me to experiment visually. In my work, I research a certain field of aesthetic based on notions such as borders/lines/barriers and walls. I analyze the reflection of this visual grammar that I question to the public architectural texture and its connection to social class distinction. In my work, the problems created by urbanization are visualized through the notions of architecture, private space, borders and fences.