Even we’re the same age, one of my greatest masters -not only in Art, but in life- is the photographer Emrah Karakurum. Same hitting Istanbul streets, trying to cross Hungarian border without visa, cooking the best yogurt soup ever or just talking about American movies, all his stories will start in completely calm for progressively acquire a huge epic tone.
“Everything is about humanity”. He would say while drinks his favorite Romanian cognac.
And indeed it is. However the devastated landscapes, bizarre characters and awkward traveling situations, in his work he will always bring back the complicity, the compassion that is so indispensable for a sincere Art. In Karakurum’s photographs there is not a premeditated perfection (sharpness is such a bourgeois concept); just inconsistent pieces of an artist’s life who knows how to re-invent everything before he finishes his glass of cognac.
Emrah Karakurum (1982) is a Turkish photographer living in Istanbul.
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