About Mehmet Turgut
Mehmet Turgut (b.1977) is a third-generation photographer from Ankara (Turkey).
His homonym grandfather was also a photographer. As a matter of fact, Mehmet has a family of photographers. His grandfather, paternal grandmother, father, and uncles were all photographers. They mostly shot portraits and people, specializing in advertising and architectural photography. Indeed, they all performed the techniques in their own time, from analog to digital photography.
Work and Career
Mehmet starts with the theory of photography, printing techniques, and photo editing to shift to fictional photography and photographic art.
Mehmet has won several national and international awards for his work, including the Photographic Society of America and Austria Super Circuit. He also has given many workshops and talks in various institutions such as TEDx Istanbul and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mehmet created record covers of Patricia Kaas’ “Best Of” and Ozzy Osbourne’s “Let It Die.”
In 2009, he was given the “Photography Artist of the Year” award by the Turkish Art Institution; in 2014, he won the “Photographer of the Year” award at the One Eye Land Awards.
Mehmet has been the owner and the creative director of the “Karakalem” Magazine since 2008 and the “46” Magazine since 2010. He also published his first photographic book, “30” in 2012.
In 2014, Mehmet created the project “Ala Portreler” with names like Ara Guler and Aydin Boysan. He opened his first international exhibition at the Rome Expo Sabatini in Italy.
He continues to produce visual consultancy and content for literary magazines such as Kafa, Ot, and Tuhaf and works at universities as an educator.
His work has been shown from Rome to Boston and all over Turkey. In 2014, he created the “Âlâ Portreler” exhibition with Turkish masters of art and design, including legendary photographer Ara Güler, world-renowned as “The Eye of Istanbul” and one of Turgut’s biggest inspirations, as well as famed architect Aydin Boysen. In addition to his fine art and celebrity shoots, Turgut has done commercial work for global brands including Coca-Cola, Red Bull, Pepsi, Nike, Ford, and Jack Daniel’s.
NFT Interest
He considers NFTs as a part of our contemporary lives. That’s why Mehmet sees this trend as very exciting. His idea towards the NFT community is a thrilling and hopeful one, for which reason the medium is growing so fast. Together with his team, Mehmet aims at building their NFT community to support further artists in producing NFT related projects.
NFT New Collection, Rock Drop by Mehmet Turgur
When Mehmet Turgut was a child, his dream was to work with Rock Stars. As an internationally recognized photographer, 20 years ago, this dream became a reality.
In his new NFT collection, “Rock Drop,” Turgut offers animations based on photos from his shoots with Cooper and “The Prince of Darkness” — available at Crypto.com/NFT.
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