Photography
Taksim Square had been declared off-limits since the bloodshed during a May Day rally there in 1977 when gunmen, believed to be far-right militants aided by members of the intelligence services, fired on a peaceful crowd, triggering mass panic.
The yoruks (Nomads) are the most important actors of the living culture of the Aegean mountains. Their livelihood depends on goat herding and causes them to adopt a half-nomadic lifestyle.
I remembered the day my boss would send me to the local teashop to pick up warm water for development. We would prepare the chemical baths for films and postcards ourselves, develop the films, then print them on postcard.
"Faces of Roma" Photo Exhibition — with the support of Center Amalipe and the Regional Library, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.
My documentary photo works in the Stolipinovo Roma neighborhood between 2018 and 2019 were exhibited at Plovdiv University between 22 April and 31 May 2019.
Exhibition opening: Roma & Weddings. Photographs from Turkey and Bulgaria by Aydin Cetinbostanoglu, presented in Dortmund.
The Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan invited me to take part in the IX Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art, “The Artist and the Society: the Concepts of the Future Art”.
A portfolio proposal bringing together photographs of Anatolia’s living cultures, religions and subcultures.