Press

On Come Get Your Honey and the work

“If I remove myself from the situation, trans refugee myself, when I look at the book, I see that you want to show the viewer: ‘These people are just like you.’”
Farah Abdi, In Conversation: Farah Abdi and Samet Durgun, TGEU — Transgender Europe
“…with respect and friendship.”
Ulrich Rüter, Book of the Month: Come Get Your Honey, Leica Fotografie International
“…camaraderie, intimacy and respect.”
Alona Pardo, Meet the 2021 Critics’ Choice Award Winners, LensCulture
“…photography functions like a language that can connect people and communities.”
Maren Lübbke-Tidow, Seen By #15. Nothing Ever Happened (Yet), Museum für Fotografie, Berlin

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Awards

2022 Portrait of Humanity Vol. 4 shortlist, British Journal of Photography, for Dancers at Their Break, printed in the Vol. 4 book
2021 LensCulture Critics' Choice Award, selected by Alona Pardo
2021 GUP Fresh Eyes talent selection, Fresh Eyes 2021

Selected press

2025 Fotografiska’s Exhibition Portrays Tenderness as Survival, Vakuum Magazine, by Thinley Wingen
2025 Emerging Berlin | Fotografiska Berlin, WhiteWall Magazin, the exhibition partner’s feature, German
2025 FOTOGRAFISKA BERLIN – EMERGING BERLIN: Samet Durgun ‘Come Get Your Honey’, KALTBLUT, interview
2025 Five Exhibitions for August, Aesthetica, exhibition selection, by Emma Jacob
2024 Love, Lust and Freedom at Brandts, Denmark, Dazed, gallery, with Emrah’s Kitchen and Keil Li at Patricia’s Lap reproduced
2024 Love, Lust, And Freedom: A Must-Visit Queer Exhibition, Container Love, by Javier Zamora-Kalazich
2024 Fotografiets fortællinger i Odense: Love, Lust and Freedom – skildringer af Queerliv, Out & About, Danish
2024 Love, Lust and Freedom, e-flux, exhibition announcement, Kunstmuseum Brandts
2021 Book of the Month: Come Get Your Honey, Leica Fotografie International, by Ulrich Rüter
2021 154 | 2021, Camera Austria International, presented by Maren Lübbke-Tidow
2021 Cosa significa essere una persona queer richiedente asilo a Berlino, i-D Italy, interview by Marco Frattaruolo, archived copy
2021 „Come Get Your Honey“: Endstation Berlin – wie sieht der Alltag von trans* und queeren Flüchtlingen aus?, GQ Germany, by Verena Aichinger
2021 An intimate portrait of LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in Berlin, Huck, interview by Miss Rosen
2021 Weaving Bonds at Eye-Level: An Interview With Samet Durgun, Critical Diversity, Universität der Künste Berlin, interview by Adela Lovrić
2021 #photography2050: Samet Durgun, HALLE4, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, essay, archived copy
2021 Come Get Your Honey, Der Greif, artist feature, archived copy
— Come get your honey, PH L S PH – philosophy photography lab, essay on epistemic injustice, by Kris Goffin, archived copy

Biography, CV & photo credits for press & curators →

Archive: articles, conversations and records

Interviews, reviews and essays reproduced in full with credit, alongside shorter records of conversations, an award and an exhibition. Each page links to its source where one exists.

Cosa significa essere una persona queer richiedente asilo a Berlino
Interview · Nov 10, 2021 · i-D Italy
Marco Frattaruolo intervista Samet Durgun per i-D Italy su Come Get Your Honey e sulla comunità berlinese di rifugiatə queer.
Weaving Bonds at Eye-Level: An Interview With Samet Durgun
Interview · Nov 4, 2021 · Critical Diversity, Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)
Adela Lovrić interviews Samet Durgun for Critical Diversity at the Berlin University of the Arts, on vulnerability, joy and photographing at eye level.
#photography2050: Samet Durgun
Essay · Oct 14, 2021 · HALLE4, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
An essay for HALLE4, Deichtorhallen Hamburg: five principles shaping photography — fidelity, tension, metaphor, who is behind the images, and why.
In Conversation: Samet Durgun and Alexa Becker
Conversation · Oct 9, 2021 · Impressions Gallery Photobook Fair 2021
Samet Durgun in conversation with Alexa Becker of Kehrer Verlag at the Impressions Gallery Photobook Fair 2021.
Meet the 2021 Critics’ Choice Award Winners
Award · Aug 19, 2021 · LensCulture
Come Get Your Honey among the winners of the 2021 LensCulture Critics’ Choice Award, with commentary by Alona Pardo.
Book of the Month: Come Get Your Honey
Review · Aug 16, 2021 · LFI — Leica Fotografie International
Ulrich Rüter reviews Come Get Your Honey for LFI — Leica Fotografie International, reading Durgun’s portraits alongside Christer Strömholm and Nan Goldin.
An intimate portrait of LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in Berlin
Interview · Aug 12, 2021 · HUCK Magazine
Miss Rosen interviews Samet Durgun for HUCK on Come Get Your Honey, photography as listening and work with queer refugees and asylum seekers in Berlin.
In Conversation: Farah Abdi and Samet Durgun
Conversation · Aug 12, 2021 · TGEU — Transgender Europe
TGEU’s Farah Abdi interviews Samet Durgun about Come Get Your Honey in an Instagram Live for Transgender Europe.
„Come Get Your Honey“: Endstation Berlin – wie sieht der Alltag von trans* und queeren Flüchtlingen aus?
Review · Jul 7, 2021 · GQ Deutschland
Verena Aichinger über den Bildband Come Get Your Honey für GQ Deutschland: das Leben von LGBTQIA+ Geflüchteten und Asylsuchenden in Berlin.
Seen By #15: Nothing Ever Happened (Yet)
Exhibition · 2021
Come Get Your Honey shown at the Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, in a group exhibition curated by Maren Lübbke-Tidow, 2021.

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