Fascinated by India, the Counsel General of Turkey, Murat Ahmet Yoruk and wife Seniz Yoruk put up a photography exhibition in the city.
Seniz Yoruk is a professional photographer but her husband, Murat Ahmet Yoruk, the counsel general of Turkey, has taken up photography only three years back after arriving in India.
Other than drawing him to photography, India seems to have had another impact on him. Ahmet is already familiar with the local language. “Kya aap chai lenge,” is the first thing he says when we meet him and surprises us.
“When I came to India, I just had the urge to take pictures. So I started photography,” he says smiling. Of course, in due course he has learned a lot from Seniz.
The couple recently watched superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s movie Don and they liked it. They love travelling and instantly felt a connection with India. The exhibition is titled India in Motion. “India is over photographed and you can already find many cliches in photographs of National Geographic Magazine.
Since we have been in the country since three years, we were too local to shoot cliches so we just maintained that fine balance between being a foreigner and a local citizen, to come up with pictures that best reflected our perspective,” says Seniz.
According to her, “India is always moving forward and moving and changing in itself. There is so much diversity here that every situation and every new day comes with a surprise.”
Ahmet adds, “I have been to the Banganga Tank at Malabar Hill several times. But every time I go there, there is always something new to look out for. For instance if I were to take five pictures of the same place from different angles, they may appear to be from different parts of the country.”
The pictures cover a variety of aspects of India — from the Taj Mahal in Agra, beaches in Goa, barbers tending to their clients in the streets of Delhi to Mumbai’s populated residential areas and slums.
However, it’s the colours and the smells of India that fascinate them most. “In Turkey the only colours that you see around are brown, black, grey or beige. But in India people are not afraid to experiment and wear bright colours. It’s a happy sight to look at,” says Seniz.
Funds from the exhibition shall proceed to the
National Association for the Blind. The exhibition can be viewed at the ICIA Gallery, Kala Ghoda, till Saturday, September 18.
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