Samet Durgun Photographer
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Samet Durgun (b. 1988) is a Berlin-based photographer and visual artist.

As a first-generation immigrant and queer artist living in Berlin, I've grappled with the question of belonging. I found connection with gender-nonconforming, queer, transgender refugees and asylum seekers in the city, whose intricate identities inspire deep respect in me.

My work challenges the traditional view of photography as merely seeing, proposing that it can be more about listening. I seek to capture people in their wholeness, embracing their differences while recognizing the limitations of representation. My images reflect my personal relationships and impressions of their stories, making them a subjective representation of my own experiences.

I am German-Turkish-Abkhazian, was born in 1988 in Adana, and live in Berlin. My work has been shown at venues including Fotografiska Berlin, the Museum für Fotografie in Berlin and Kunstmuseum Brandts in Denmark.

There is a plainer account of what Come Get Your Honey is and who it involved, and a set of field guides to the photographers and artists working near the same questions, among them the queer photographers in Berlin, the city I work in.

Samet Durgun, seated, photographed at home.
Photo: Sibylle Fendt

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