Samet Durgun Photographer
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Short biography

Samet Durgun (b. 1988) is a Berlin-based photographer and visual artist. His monograph Come Get Your Honey (Kehrer Verlag, 2021) was made with queer, trans and gender-nonconforming refugees and asylum seekers in Berlin. His work proposes that photography can be more about listening than seeing.

Long biography

Samet Durgun (b. 1988) is a Berlin-based photographer and visual artist. His monograph Come Get Your Honey (Kehrer Verlag, 2021) was made with queer, trans and gender-nonconforming refugees and asylum seekers in Berlin. His work proposes that photography can be more about listening than seeing.

Durgun holds a BA from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and was part of the inaugural class of the Common Ground mentorship at Universität der Künste Berlin (2020/21, class of Mathilde ter Heijne). In 2021 he received the LensCulture Critics' Choice Award, selected by Alona Pardo, and a GUP Fresh Eyes talent selection. His work has been exhibited at Fotografiska Berlin, Kunstmuseum Brandts in Denmark and the Museum für Fotografie, Berlin.

Artist statement

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.

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