artist/ Ozgur

Turkey

1964 born Journalist & Photographer Tahir Özgür has worked as columnist, editor and executive director in various prestigious media groups of the country for more than 30 years. Formerly photography was a work to complete his journalism, however lately it became his passion of life. Since then, he has been photographing people to narrate their stories. He focuses on emotions and feelings and put human being forward in his work. He uses light as brush in his works. He believes that light and feelings are the core of the power of the photography.
The artist created a photography story with his project ” Last Nomads of Turkey, Sarikecililer – Migrating to a World of no Tomorrows ” and the project was awarded the second-best prize in National Geographic International Photography Competition in 2008. He was entitled to Excellence FIAP (EFIAP) of (Fédération de Internationale deI’Art Photographique ) in 2010.
In International Photography Competition of Hahnemuhle, his photography “the mountain villages of Black Sea” was accepted to the collection of Hahnemuhle in 2011 and presented in exhibitions such as Photokina in 12 countries. Same year Özgür won Grand Prize in International Photography Awards of HIPA which was dedicated to Ansel Adams.
In 2012, his project “Mineworkers/ Altitude -750” exhibited in Ruhr Museum and 7 artworks of the project were published in the museum catalogue. Same year the artist was honoured with gold medal of FIAP.
The artist had 32 personal exhibitions in several countries.