November is a beginning

2013–2018
Photography

A long-term photographic work on displacement, waiting, and fragile everyday life inside a Syrian Kurdish refugee community in Istanbul.

November is a Beginning is a long-term photographic work made between 2013 and 2018 in Süleymaniye, Istanbul, where a Syrian Kurdish refugee community built temporary life inside abandoned houses. The work follows waiting, displacement, domestic routine, and the fragile attempt to make home in a place already marked by absence.

  • Bosporus I

  • A man in a ferry

  • A Black Dog

  • Süleymaniye III

  • Syrian Refugees

  • A boy spurting on the street

  • Tug of War

  • Syrian boys with a toy gun

  • Süleymaniye IV

  • Isa

  • Syrian man in a leather vest

  • Girl in a floral dress

  • Syrian man with a laundries

  • Süleymaniye V

  • 6PM

  • Woman in Black

  • Family Portrait

  • Süleymaniye II

  • Rizar

  • Ekrem and playing child

  • Birds

  • Bosporus II