Talks

Lectures, panels and workshops — hi@sametdurgun.com

I speak about the work and the questions under it: photography as listening rather than seeing; what consent means in portraiture when the people photographed are queer, trans and gender-nonconforming refugees and asylum seekers; how fifty people became fifteen pictures; and why a photobook came to carry a voice recording and a video.

Talks are in English. The formats so far have been an artist talk in conversation with the book's publisher, a reverse portfolio walk at the Deutsche Fotografische Akademie, and a conference stage at IFA Berlin. Enquiries for lectures, panels, workshops and university seminars are welcome, in person or online.

Subjects

• Photography as listening, not seeing — the question under all of the work, with the full talk on video
• Consent and portraiture — photographing queer, trans and gender-nonconforming refugees and asylum seekers, and what it asks of the photographer
• How fifty people became fifteen pictures — editing a book from years of relationships
• Why a photobook carries audio and video — what a photograph cannot hold, and what the book does about it
• Where the work sits — the photographers and artists working near the same questions — eight field guides

Past talks

• 2026IFA Berlin — speaker — 4–8 September 2026
• 2021Photobook Fair talk, Impressions Gallery — in conversation with Alexa Becker, Kehrer Verlag
• —Reverse Portfolio Walk, Deutsche Fotografische Akademie — with Karina-Sirkku Kurz

Watch one in full

The Photobook Fair talk with Alexa Becker of Kehrer Verlag is on this site with a full transcript: Photography as Listening.

Enquiries

Write with the occasion, the audience, the date and the format you have in mind, and whether it is a talk, a conversation or a workshop.