Asli Ulaş Gönen
a photographer who want to discover beauties in our daily rush.
Taking photos on the street, I take care not to disturb people and not to enter security areas.
My name is Asli Gonen, I live in Turkey, in a small city in Central Anatolia. I was particularly interested in art, painting and with the introduction of the Internet and digital photography in our lives, I eventually turned to photography.
I started to subscribe to photo sites on the Internet and for a long time I just watched. Then I bought a small compact camera, thinking why I don’t I do it too?
I did not receive any training in photography. I developed myself completely by my observations and reading. I practiced on the streets all the time. Being on the streets, documenting those ordinary, simple moments makes me happy. From the first moment I became interested in photography, I was only interested in street photography. I also like to add my own shadow, silhouette or reflection to the composition, this gives me pleasure.
As Saul Leither said, “I happen to believe in the beauty of simple things. I believe that the most uninteresting thing can be very interesting.” By adopting this saying as my philosophy, I try to discover those short moments and beauties in our daily rush.
I have taken part in various national and international exhibitions, Also, some of my photographs have been printed as book covers.
Member of TurkuazStreet Collective and WomeninstreetTurkey,
The purpose of this exhibition is to show the work of the whole Progressive Street Gang – a diverse collection of photographers from around the world – which is not exclusively a group of street photographers but a group of photographers across the board. Talking about styles and differences in techniques and approaches is boring and not even very useful, because what counts in photography is sincerity. For this reason, I have chosen to couple images, a kind of shot – reverse-shot, freely interpreted. As in life, there is a glance and a counter-glance that gives depth to everything and every event, so this conceptual escamotage helped me to select photos that when put together managed to create a story and provoke thought, whilst showing at the same time the peculiarities of the various photographers. Batsceba Hardy
Published by Bump Books
Edited by David Solomons
Publication date: February 2022
Size: 210mm x 148mm
Cover: uncoated 170gsm digital
Text: uncoated 120gsm digital
Pages: 32
Images: 25
Printed in the UK
Edition of 200 – £ 6.50
