The workshop is led by Ahmet Sel, whose body of work titled At Ours is exhibited at Istanbuls Today, which was produced specially for the exhibition and which deals with the concept of migration. Together with the artist, participants have the opportunity to examine the series, in which immigrants who have settled in Istanbul for various reasons are photographed in their private living or workspaces. In the workshop, the participants learn about the artist's approach to portrait photography and the intricacies of taking a portrait photograph with a story.
Note: It is recommended that the participants send their portrait photography productions to ogrenme@peramuzesi.org.tr or bring them with them to be interpreted in the workshop.
Capacity: 15 people
Duration: 120 minutes
Fee per workshop: 250 TL
The event will take place at the Pera Museum (face-to-face).
For more information: ogrenme@peramuzesi.org.tr
About Ahmet Sel
Working in the fields of documentary photography and portrait photography, the artist studied communication at Paris-X (Université Paris Nanterre) and television journalism at INA (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, Paris). Between 1980 and 2010, he lived in Paris and Moscow, working as a reporter and manager in various television channels and photography agencies. The artist, who continues his works by focusing on the stories of individuals in times of social change and crisis, has books published in France and Turkey. He won the "Fujifilm Press Photo Awards France" in the portrait category in 2003, the "National Magazine Awards Foundation" grand prize in photography and text in Canada in 2004, and the 1st prize in the portrait category at the Sarajevo Photography Festival in 2022.
Our Doublethink Double vision exhibition’s title alludes to George Orwell’s seminal work 1984 and presents a selection that includes Tracey Emin, Marcel Dzama, Anselm Kiefer, Bruce Nauman, Raymond Pettibon, and Thomas Ruff, as well as Turkish artists, tracing the steps of pluralistic thought through works of art.
Our institutions have been stuck on linear Neo-Platonic tracks for 24 centuries. These antiquated processes of deduction have lost their authority. Just like art it has fallen off its pedestal. Legal, educational and constitutional systems rigidly subscribe to these; they are 100% text based.
1638, the year Louis XIV was born –his second name, Dieudonné, alluding to his God-given status– saw the diffusion of a cult of maternity encouraged by the very devout Anne of Austria, in thanks for the miracle by which she had given birth to an heir to the French throne. Simon François de Tours (1606-1671) painted the Queen in the guise of the Virgin Mary, and the young Louis XIV as the infant Jesus, in the allegorical portrait now in the Bishop’s Palace at Sens.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)
