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| Ahmet Polat |
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Born 1978 in Roosendaal, the Netherlands, Polat lives and works in Istanbul and the Netherlands. His photographs document human nature, changing social demographics and tides of immigration. He has traveled throughout the Netherlands and Turkey for his work and has captured the effects on people of the devastating Marmara earthquake of 1999, the rapid gentrification of the areas of the Golden Horn in Istanbul and of international and national migration. Polat not only looks to the streets for inspiration, he also actively involves himself in the various private, social gatherings of different walks of society in order to capture relationships in either more personal, or sometimes more contrived environments.
Polat was the recipient of the International Center for Photography's “Young Photographer” award in 2006. He has shown extensively in the Netherlands and Turkey. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Istanbul Modern in 2007 and participation in group exhibitions at the Breda Museum in Breda, and the Photo Museum, The Hague, both in the Netherlands.
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