Ali Taptık

Familiars Strangers, Photography, 90 x 120 cm, 2007-8

Ali Taptık was born on 1983, in Istanbul, where he continues to work and live. Taptik graduated from Architecture Program (BSc) and History of Architecture Program (MSc) in Istanbul Technical University and is self-taught on photography. He finished a master class on documentary photography in Nordens Fotoskola, Sweden under mentorship of Halil Koyuturk.His first project “remembering me” was combining diary pictures with Istanbul's urban landscapes to recreate a personal history. Starting with this project most of Taptik’s work was on narratives about the city as well as the relationship between city and the individual. His second series "Kaza ve Kader" (Accident and Fate) is “about interconnected frames of the experience of accumulated urban realities, it is about the relationships, places, people, emotions and coincidences”*. “Kaza ve Kader” has been start of a long term project on Istanbul, where the relationship between the intimate and the social was one of the key elements. "Kaza ve Kader" was published by Filigranes Editions, France in November 2009.With "Familiar Strangers", a series about the urban structure and the relationship of the subjects of the city with their environment Taptik continued on his work on its hometown.Currently Taptik is working on “Nothing Surprising”, the second volume of his long term project “Picturing Istanbul” that started with “Kaza ve Kader”.

Solo Exhibitions

April, 2005 “remembering me” deCentrale-Samovar, Ghent

May, 2005 “remembering me” 4. Fotofestiwal, Lodz

September, 2005 “remembering me” 12 Noorderlicht Photography Festival Groningen

April, 2006 “remembering me” 3. Bursa UFOT Photography Days, Bursa

June, 2006 “remembering me” House of Photography St. Petersburg

June,2006 “remembering me” Langhans Galerie; Prag

February, 2007 “Kaza ve Kader” PiST, Interdisciplinary Project Space, İstanbul

March, 2007 “Kaza ve Kader” Avivart, Istanbul

September,2007 “Kaza ve Kader” Galerie KUD, Ljubjana, Slovenia (Terminale00)

December, 2007 "remembering me" Tarbes, Pyrennes

February, 2008 "Familiar Strangers" x-ist, Istanbul

April, 2008 "Kaza ve Kader" Atelier de Visu, Marseille

November, 2008 “Coming-Going” Quarentine, Liverpool

September, 2011 'Deployment' x-ist, Istanbul

Group Exhibitions

June, 2004 “Young Talents in Turkish Photography”Istanbul Photography Center (Curated by Genis Aci Magazine editors

July,2004 “Isolation and Togetherness”, Photograpy Center of Thessaloniki, Greece (Curated by Anders Petersen)

March,2005 “off space”, Siemens Art Center, Istanbul (Curated by Marcus Graf)

June,2005 “outsiders”, Malmö Högskola K3

August,2006 "Colloboration on Site", Kiasma, Helsinki

September,2006 “Intersection II”, Gallery x-ist, Istanbul, with Erhan Ozısıklı

November,2006 “Rejection Episodes”, Vooruit Cultural Center, Belgium, Ghent (Curated by Basak Senova)

July,2007 "Where are you?", Nisantasi

March,2008 Unrecorded (Curated by Basak Senova) Aksanat Contemporary Art Center

March,2008 Young Visions (Curated by GAPO) Malmö Museum

April, 2008 Latent Talent SCAN'08 Catalan Photography Festival (Curated by Álvaro de los Ángeles, Marta Dahó and Tanit Plana)

April, 2008 CIGE, Beijing, China

September, 2008 Coincidences, intutions, fictions on Istanbul, 2010 Office, Istanbul (Curated by Deniz Erbas)

October, 2008 Istanbul diptychs, Istanbul Center in Brussels (Curated by Beral Madra)

November,2008 Cities on the Edge (Curated by John Davies) CUC, Liverpool

November, 2008 “Transit” Static, Liverpool (Quarentine for Liverpool'08 komiteliğinde)

May, 2009  “Kaza ve Kader” imageSingulieres, Sete

May,2009   Viewing Restricted, London School of Economics

July, 2009  “Kaza ve Kader” Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse

February, 2011 If Nature is Heaven, City is Hell, Cermodern, Ankara

March, 2011, Art Dubai 2011, Dubai

April, 2011 Right Here, Right Now, Cuadro Art Gallery, Dubai

May, 2011, Art HK'11, Hong Kong

Films

Uyan(ma)ma, 2001

Best Experimental Film İstanbul Short Film Festival,2002

Sıfır-Sıfır, 2007 (Director of Photography)

Naz, 2008 (Director of Photography)

Publications

“Lunapark” in Geniş Açı Magazine Special Issue 2, June 2004, İstanbul

“Isolation and Togetherness”, June 2004, Thessaloniki

“Remembering Me” in Monthly Photo, August 2006, South Korea, Seoul

“Kaza ve Kader” in Imago, December,2007 Prag, Chzech Republich

“Kaza ve Kader” in serge.se, August, 2008 Gotheborg, Sweden

Residencies and Comissions

Atelier de Visu, Marseilles- France, September, 2005

Liverpool Capital of Culture 08-United Kingdom, Cities on the Edge project, April, 2008

Quarentine, Manchester – United Kingdom, Coming and Going, Summer, 2008

London School of Economics – United Kingdom, Viewing Restricted**, August-September, 2008