Mehmet Turgut (b.1977) is a third-generation photographer from Ankara (Turkey).

His homonym grandfather was also a photographer. As a matter of fact, Mehmet has a family of photographers. His grandfather, paternal grandmother, father, and uncles were all photographers. They mostly shot portraits and people, specializing in advertising and architectural photography. Indeed, they all performed the techniques in their own time, from analog to digital photography.

Work and Career

Mehmet starts with the theory of photography, printing techniques, and photo editing to shift to fictional photography and photographic art.

Mehmet has won several national and international awards for his work, including the Photographic Society of America and Austria Super Circuit. He also has given many workshops and talks in various institutions such as TEDx Istanbul and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mehmet created record covers of Patricia Kaas’ “Best Of” and Ozzy Osbourne’s “Let It Die.”

In 2009, he was given the “Photography Artist of the Year” award by the Turkish Art Institution; in 2014, he won the “Photographer of the Year” award at the One Eye Land Awards.

Mehmet has been the owner and the creative director of the “Karakalem” Magazine since 2008 and the “46” Magazine since 2010. He also published his first photographic book, “30” in 2012.

In 2014, Mehmet created the project “Ala Portreler” with names like Ara Guler and Aydin Boysan. He opened his first international exhibition at the Rome Expo Sabatini in Italy.

He continues to produce visual consultancy and content for literary magazines such as Kafa, Ot, and Tuhaf and works at universities as an educator.

His work has been shown from Rome to Boston and all over Turkey. In 2014, he created the “Âlâ Portreler” exhibition with Turkish masters of art and design, including legendary photographer Ara Güler, world-renowned as “The Eye of Istanbul” and one of Turgut’s biggest inspirations, as well as famed architect Aydin Boysen. In addition to his fine art and celebrity shoots, Turgut has done commercial work for global brands including Coca-Cola, Red Bull, Pepsi, Nike, Ford, and Jack Daniel’s.

NFT Interest

He considers NFTs as a part of our contemporary lives. That’s why Mehmet sees this trend as very exciting. His idea towards the NFT community is a thrilling and hopeful one, for which reason the medium is growing so fast. Together with his team, Mehmet aims at building their NFT community to support further artists in producing NFT related projects. 

NFT New Collection, Rock Drop by Mehmet Turgur

When Mehmet Turgut was a child, his dream was to work with Rock Stars. As an internationally recognized photographer, 20 years ago, this dream became a reality.

In his new NFT collection, “Rock Drop,” Turgut offers animations based on photos from his shoots with Cooper and “The Prince of Darkness” — available at Crypto.com/NFT.

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Conceived in 2011 from the idea of Fabio Castelli, MIA Fair is the most prominent art fair dedicated to photography in Italy. The fair offers a unique approach by presenting Solo Show and Group Show with a specific curatorial project. Its focus is to highlight the role that photography plays in the languages of expression of the contemporary art system.

Educational Nature Training Event For Collective Aware

MIA Photo Fair has created a new collectors’ base that approaches contemporary art through the collection of photography.

The fair provides a successful cultural program, with events and conferences dedicated to the world of art and photography.  It aims at supporting a conscious collector with insights and important guests in the Italian and international art scene.

MIA Fair offers art collectors the experience of a unique view of the Italian photography art market, ranging from established to emerging artists. 

MIA Fair 2021 In Numbers

The following are the figures and activities of MIA Fair 2021, the fair dedicated to photography directed by Fabio Castelli and Lorenza Castelli at SUPERSTUDIO MAXI – Via Moncucco 35, Milan.

Participating in the 10th edition of the MIA Photo Fair are 90 galleries coming from 16 different countries; alongside are other 50 exhibitors, divided into 13 specialized editors, 9 media partners, 5 exhibitions, 17 conferences, and 5 awards, bringing the total number of exhibitors to 140, within an exhibition area of 7.000 sq. mt.

Awarded Prizes

During the days of the fair 6 prizes have been awarded: the BNL BNP Paribas Group Award an acquisition award which enriches the Banks’s art collection; the G*AA Architecture Photography Award, in partnership with Attilio Giaquinto’s Studio G*AA and with Tiziana Bonomo’s ArtPhotò, dedicated to architectural photography and aiming to enhance its ability to make the public discover the space, atmospheres, landscapes and transformations that are experienced on a daily basis; the New-Post Photography Award, born in 2020, promoting the new languages of a photography capable of confronting the contemporary world in an innovative way; the Premio Esplorare Gavi – Immagini d’autore dal Piemonte, promoted by the Consorzio Tutela del Gavi, aming to enhance the territory of Gavi Docg through photography, telling its distinctive features, its landmarks, its protagonists and the different experiences that can be lived in this beautiful place; the PUNCTUM Prize – Chromatic Synaesthesias, promoted by the Maimeri Foundation with the scientific sponsorship of the Università degli Studi di Milano (Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage and Department of Historical Studies), addressed to professional and amateur photographers who want to question themselves on the relationship between photography and color; and the Codice MIA Award 2019, an exclusive porfolio review dedicated to mid-career artists, conceived and curated by Enrica Viganò, curator and photo critic.

BEYOND PHOTOGRAPHY

Beyond Photography is the format that aims to underline what ‘photography’ means today, especially concerning the world of contemporary art. Within it, the new section Beyond Photography – Dialogue, with the curation of Domenico de Chirico, focuses on galleries promoting the most recent generations of international artists.
Its exhibition project is indeed a dialogue between Photography and a single work made with other media such as sculpture, installation, painting, and video. Beyond Photography-Dialogue is an elite place of encounter that places Photography at the center. It does this in a way that, by opening itself to new contemporary forms of “dialogue”, legitimizes its specificity and abstracts from the confines of its history.

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Over the last two years, the world has seen artists exploit their talents for deeper topics. Indeed the pandemic was central, and themes such as human feelings, sustainability, and physical or mental health were at the core of artists’ conditions. This 2022 is the year of a back-to-normality state of mind, which is already visible in many recent works of painters, photographers, and illustrators worldwide. 

Experts predict a return to figurative painting in 2022, thanks to several high-level representative exhibitions opening in museums across the world in the early months of the year and the need to take advantage of the emotional capabilities of painting post-pandemic. 

Following is a selection curated by Hue&Eye listing the Top 10 Emerging Artists to Follow in 2022.

Camille Walala

Known for her ambitious, large-scale, and explosively colorful interventions in public spaces, Camille Walala uses the man-made landscape as a platform for disseminating positivity. Her work encompasses full-facade murals, immersive 3D installations, street art, interiors, and set design – characterized by a fusion of bold colors and playful geometric patterns. Since her ‘Dream Come True Building’ burst onto the Shoreditch streetscape in 2015 and thrust her into the spotlight, Camille and her creative producer, Julia Jomaa, have been engaged in an increasingly bold roster of international projects. These have included collaborations with leading global brands – such as LEGO, for whom she created the HOUSE OF DOTS; the creative direction of the groundbreaking Mauritian hotel SALT of Palmar; and a slew of major installations for events like NYC’s WantedDesign and London Design Festival – including Walala Lounge, as a complete suite of semi-permanent street furniture that transformed South Molton Street, Mayfair, into a corridor of color. Camille finds inspiration in community and collaboration, and the power of color and pattern to transform atmospheres, elevate moods, and spark positivity.

Mongezi Ncaphayi 

Born in 1983 in Benoni, South Africa, Mongezi Ncaphayi lives and works in Cape Town. Mongezi Ncaphayi uses various materials to explore social questions of politics, power, and rampant inequities in his abstract paintings and prints. Ncaphayi’s work has won him numerous honors, including the prestigious Absa L’Atelier Gerard Sekoto Award, the Africa First Art Prize, as well as residencies at the Thami Mnyele Foundation in Amsterdam, The Ampersand Foundation in New York, the Mixit Print Studio Boston, and the Nirox Foundation in Johannesburg, among others. His work is in the collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Thami Mnyele Foundation in Amsterdam, the Bibliothéque Nationale de France in Paris, France, the Ampersand Foundation in London, and the Luciano Benetton Foundation, in Treviso, Italy, among other institutions and private collections.

Xie Lei

Currently living and working in Paris, in his paintings, Xie Lei emphasizes ambiguity and sensory details to create environments for viewers to enter and explore. Often producing monochromatic works in a dark palette of mixed colors, Xie Lei can perhaps be best described as a symbolist painter. Ancient rituals, traditional Chinese imagery, or Western mythology form the subjects of many paintings. His work is included in public and private collections, such as Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC VAL) and Burger Collection. Notable solo exhibitions were staged at Yishu 8 Beijing, Galerie Anne de Villepoix Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts Paris, Z Gallery Arts Vancouver. Besides, his works were included in group shows at MAC VAL, the Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Langen Foundation, and White Space. He exhibits in a solo presentation at artgenève, presented by the French gallery Semiose. He is also a 2022 artist-in-residence at the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels.

Deborah Segun 

Born in 1994, Nigerian multidisciplinary artist Deborah Segun is garnering attention for her large-scale figurative works that celebrate the beauty and nuances of womanhood. With an intuitive gaze, Segun deconstructs traditional representations of women, reimagining the female figure using smooth, rich curves and exaggerated silhouettes that recall the modernist vocabulary of Cubism. Segun’s intimate portraits capture moments of joy and acceptance, evoking a sense of hope by employing fresh compositions and fluid strokes of blue and earth-tone acrylic.

Lefty Out There

Known for his polymorph designs, Lefty Out There is a pioneering multidisciplinary artist and illustrator. Lefty’s goal is to ‘cover everything.’ Launching his career as a street artist in Chicago, the artist’s current practice combines the craft of graffiti with technologically advanced processes like LED boxes, computers, and laser cutters. His ambitious murals and daring canvases have caught the attention of prestigious brands across the globe, including Nike, Adidas, Facebook, and Google. 

Cooper

Born and raised in Evansville, Indiana, Andrew Cooper – now more widely known as Cooper – is an American visual artist. Emerging on the art scene in 2018, Cooper is a Los Angeles-based artist who paints nature-inspired canvases. 

Cooper’s subject matter and vibrant style are the perfect antidotes to post-pandemic blues, with the art world taking a revived interest in figurative art. With physical art fairs and exhibitions seemingly returning to normal, there is no longer a need for art to be digital or geared towards digital consumption. Utilizing a diverse and vibrant palette, the vivid colors Cooper uses are reminiscent of 1990s post-Modernist pop, with the artist taking inspiration from David Hockney and Jonas Wood. Although only in his twenties, the artist has already exhibited in shows and art fairs across America, including Miami, New York, and Los Angeles.

Rachel Jones

Working in painting, installation, sound, and performance, Rachel Jones explores a sense of self as a visual, visceral experience. In her paintings, she grapples with the challenges of finding visual means to convey abstract, existential concepts. In depicting the psychological truths of being and the emotions these engender, abstraction becomes a way of expressing the intangible. The artist Rachel Jones has described her own work as an ‘exegesis of color’, and certainly, her work presents a vibrantly colorful palette of textured, abstract forms that collide with one another as a kaleidoscopic assemblage. Allowing form to take on a metaphorical role, her paintings use ‘motifs and color as a way to communicate ideas about the interiority of Black bodies and their lived experience’. Expressive, intricate, and pulsating with energy, the titles of her artworks – A Sliced Tooth, Red Shaped Mouths, and I’m Not So Clean – often reveal a wry connection with the corporeal.

Dorothy Sing Zhang

Dorothy Sing Zhang has always been interested in composite and constructed images. However, the emerging photographer’s photos are hard to describe; they appear suspended in enigmatic narratives that pause at tense moments. It makes sense that the evolution of Sing Zhang’s practice has involved filmmaking. She studied in Denmark, taught by Jørgen Leth, Lars Von Trier, and Thomas Vinterberg – while simultaneously developing her fine art background at the Slade in London, where she is currently based. 

Hugo Yu

Inventive compositions of primary colors are the common thread throughout Hugo Yu‘s work. With a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, Yu’s quickly created a recognizable visual language. While there is a structure to his practice that Yu connects to his upbringing in Shanghai, Yu leaves a playful openness for viewers’ interpretations, inspired by his current home in New York. In 2022, Yu took on a photographic marathon of creating portraits of ten architectural studios with exciting results. A recent addition to the emerging photographer’s practice is sculpture as a natural expansion of his clever still life sets. 

Bettina Pittaluga

Bettina Pittaluga is a French-Uruguayan photographer currently based in Paris. A former sociology student with a background working as a reporter, Pittaluga’s interest in people is palpable in her portraits. She likes to think that she photographs beauty.

Her work essentially responds to the homogeneous representation of humanity that she sees in the media. She thinks it is an entirely unequal vision of the human race, the exact unequal representation that is mainly responsible for racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, and the rejection of old age. It is crucial for her to do everything to continue deconstructing this hegemony and committing to invoking all these fights.

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He graduated at the Ecole supérieure des Beaux Arts in Nîmes and is recognized since 2008 by his outstanding series of images focusing on video games.

His work drew the attention of several institutions and competition juries, and in 2012 was selected for the Photo Month in Paris, Berlin and Vienna and was amongst the finalist of the Aperture Foundation Prize in New York, and in the Foam Talent prize in 2013 in Amsterdam.

In 2014 he took part to a collective project, France(s) Territoires Liquides.

He presented «Typologie du virtuel», a project in which he selected in Google Earth buildings that were co-produced by anonymous individuals, hence shedding a light on the desire to leave a trace in the digital world. Thibault Brunet collects fragments of this virtual world – shopping centers, public social housing, and seats of large commercial firms – that belong to a global architectural typology, unrelated to the territory itself. By adding a drop shadow defined with the date and time of its creation, the artist anchors these fragments to a specific moment and location. He re-contextualizes the image by connecting it to its creator’s action, and thus it becomes a new link in a collective creative chain. With the title of his series, a cataloging principle devoid of personal expression, and a composition dictated by a fixed procedure, Thibault Brunet refers to « anonymous sculptures » or the « typology of industrial buildings » made by the photographers Bernt and Illa Becher.

The images were exhibited at the Tri Postal museum in June 2015 and the Biennale de Lyon in September 2015.

Thibault started a new approach for the PMU Carte Blanche 2014 at the BAL and worked on the digitalization of the real world using a 3D scan. Since then, this project is ongoing with the technological partnership of Leica for the series « Territoires circonscrits » and has been exhibited for the first time in November 2015 at the Binôme Gallery.

Currently, he is also working on the publication of two photography books: Typologie du virtuel is to be released in October 2016 (ed. La Pionnière) and Inexplorations is to be released in 2017.

He is currently being represented by the Binôme Gallery in Paris and the Heinzer-Reszler in Lausanne.

Check more about his work here.

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“This city is always in a hurry and these skyscrapers are silent guards, which are turned to the sky, but by staying for a second and then lifting the sight up, you’ll see in the sun another world – a world of slender geometry, architectural harmony, in its pure perfection. We so rarely look up and miss so much beauty.”, she says on her Behance page.

From May to September, Hong Kong’s typical weather is very unpredictable. The city is characterized by a gloomy yet mysterious atmosphere, and Ekaterina has managed to capture this unique atmosphere in this beautiful photo series.

Originally from Russia, Ekaterina Busygina has always aspired her work through architecture and design in all forms and manifestations. Her images are filled with a creative use of the detail and composition, to inform the viewer of the existence of other forms of beauty hidden in alternative perspectives. Her series ‘White City’, for instance, is a showcase of what future cities will look like according to her.

“If you are for the first time here (Moscow), you will be amazed by the atmosphere, the emptiness, the serenity of the white city,” Ekaterina says about this set. “But equally interesting will be the discovery that you are still in the center of Moscow.”

Ekaterina used Moscow’s architecture to explore the idea of ultra-modern cityscapes being white, serene, and strikingly coordinated. Through this series, she explains how architectural photography may be an effective tool to develop the power of imagination and prediction.

She recently won the One Eyeland Award 2017 and has been published worldwide, as in Vogue Italia and Elle Decoration Russia just to mention few.

Follow her on Instagram or view more of Ekaterina’s work on her personal website.

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French photographer Thibault Brunet (b.1982) plays with the codified genres in photography to deepen the relationship between our reality and the entire social digitalized environment we currently live in.

He graduated at the Ecole supérieure des Beaux Arts in Nîmes and is recognized since 2008 by his outstanding series of images focusing on video games.

THIBAULT’S ACHIEVEMENTS

His work drew the attention of several institutions and competition juries, and in 2012 was selected for the Photo Month in Paris, Berlin and Vienna and was amongst the finalist of the Aperture Foundation Prize in New York, and in the Foam Talent prize in 2013 in Amsterdam.

In 2014 he took part to a collective project, France(s) Territoires Liquides.

He presented «Typologie du virtuel», a project in which he selected in Google Earth buildings that were co-produced by anonymous individuals, hence shedding a light on the desire to leave a trace in the digital world. Thibault Brunet collects fragments of this virtual world – shopping centers, public social housing, and seats of large commercial firms – that belong to a global architectural typology, unrelated to the territory itself. By adding a drop shadow defined with the date and time of its creation, the artist anchors these fragments to a specific moment and location. He re-contextualizes the image by connecting it to its creator’s action, and thus it becomes a new link in a collective creative chain. With the title of his series, a cataloging principle devoid of personal expression, and a composition dictated by a fixed procedure, Thibault Brunet refers to « anonymous sculptures » or the « typology of industrial buildings » made by the photographers Bernt and Illa Becher.

The images were exhibited at the Tri Postal museum in June 2015 and the Biennale de Lyon in September 2015.

Thibault started a new approach for the PMU Carte Blanche 2014 at the BAL and worked on the digitalization of the real world using a 3D scan. Since then, this project is ongoing with the technological partnership of Leica for the series « Territoires circonscrits » and has been exhibited for the first time in November 2015 at the Binôme Gallery.

PRESENT AND FUTURE

In the recent years, he has been working on the publication of two photography books: Typologie du virtuel was released in October 2016 (ed. La Pionnière) and Inexplorations was released in 2017.

He is currently being represented by the Binôme Gallery in Paris and the Heinzer-Reszler in Lausanne.

Check more about his work here.

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