Journal
Notes on the work, with the talks embedded where they exist.
Listening in Practice: How I Make Photographs With People
How I ask for consent and work with the people in Come Get Your Honey: meeting first, saying what I am doing, who chooses the pictures, and what I hold back.
Individual Presence: A Talk With Kylie Divon at Fotografiska Berlin
Samet Durgun and Kylie Divon at the Fotografiska Berlin opening of Come Get Your Honey, on consent, visibility and individual presence. Notes and transcript.
Photography as Listening: A Conversation About Come Get Your Honey
Photographer Samet Durgun on listening more than seeing, and making the photobook Come Get Your Honey in Berlin. Full talk and notes.
How Fifty People Became Fifteen in the Pictures
On editing Come Get Your Honey: why most of the work never made the book, and the pictures held back on purpose.
Why the Book Has Audio and Video in It
The question from Marianne Ager that would not go away, and how it turned Come Get Your Honey into a small universe with audio and video.
Gaze and Skin — LANGER Space for Photography, Mannheim
Come Get Your Honey joins Sarah Ungan’s Ayip! and Ceren Saner’s Can’an in a group exhibition at LANGER Space for Photography, Mannheim, which opened 13 May 2026.
Come Get Your Honey at Fotografiska Berlin
Notes on the solo presentation of Come Get Your Honey at Fotografiska Berlin's Emerging Berlin programme, 16 July to 15 September 2025.
Mind's War: Memories vs. Epoch
What counts as a memory, and who shapes it? On the media's epochs crowding out the small personal ones, and why the slightest memory is worth keeping.
Photography's Quiet Revolution: Seeing Through Listening
Photography is called a visual language, and the push to make pictures speak drowns out the quieter narratives. What listening means with a camera, and whose gaze it serves.
Soft Activism: The Art of Quiet Transformation
A definition of soft activism (advocacy that changes minds without shock or emergency), and why a photographer of queer refugees in Berlin chooses it over the expected distance.
2020s Photography in 6 Principles
Visual fidelity, tension, the one picture, metaphor, who is behind the images, and why. Six principles for photography now, and the two that make a viewer look at the artist as well as the art.
Resonations: A New Lens in Artistic Connection
Inspiration is the wrong word for what one artist's work does to another. Resonation, a shared commitment instead of one-to-one influence, is fairer. With a note on why a Robyn track sits under a photobook.