PHOTO LONDON: Nil Yalter, Şahin Kaygun, Yusuf Sevinçli

Galerist presents a curated selection of three artists from it's roaster - Nil Yalter, Şahin Kaygun and Yusuf Sevinçli - who approach photography with varying intensities, encompassing different generations. Şahin Kaygun (1951-1992) envisioned worlds through scratching, rubbing, and scraping the delicate surface of prints. By treating them with paint and chemicals, he created photopeintures, and arranged Polaroids together to form mosaic-like compositions. Kaygun yielded a body of work that is not only relevant and contemporary but is still surprising in its visionary totality. He developed a unique vocabulary through which he established himself as an avant-garde figure in Turkish photography. Yusuf Sevinçli (b. 1980), a young generation admirer of Kaygun, creates a dreamlike atmosphere in his black and white photographs. These highly personal images leave place and time uncertain, emphasising individual memories within collective spaces with a sense of timelessness. These names looking at photography from different decades are accompanied by one of the most significant names of Turkish art who have used the medium of photography to accompany their fundamental methods of production. Nil Yalter (b. 1938), a pioneer of the French feminist art movement of the 1970s and participant of the French counterculture and revolutionary political movement of the late 1960s, immerses herself in debates around gender, migrant workers from Turkey. These social movements and ethnographic science have influenced the artist’s videos, photographs, performances, and installations from the 1970s in the form of an idiosyncratic, pluralistic aesthetics. Galerist will be exhibiting works from her series that bring together documentary photographs and texts from a series of performances in 1978. By presenting these varying perspectives towards photography, the selection will showcase not only a contextual pursuance but also the extensiveness of photographic approach within the artists’s oeuvres.