Photographer Feature: Emel Karakozak
“Women are the gateway to life.”
The work of Turkish artist, Emel Karakozak comes as a simple reminder of how miraculous women are. The gateway to life, the the survival and support system for life. The following series, Budding, depicts this so beautifully, without interruption.
Emel explains that through her work, “Everything is aimed to understand the whole. Life and death, which described simultaneously in my photography is a example of my hybrid expression. Woman not only causes a miracle by giving birth, but also has the ability to reconstitute herself spiritually.”
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Emel Karakozak was born in Mut, Turkey in 1974. She has practiced the art and passion of photography since her high school years. Living in Adana, she was the first woman in Turkey who opened a solo exhibition, ‘Lotus’ in 2010, in Adana Sabancı Fine Art Gallery. Since, Karakozak has held several group and solo exhibitions and has received awards in both national and international competitions. She currenly is a Philosophy major at Anadolo University.