Book Launch: No One Dies at a Gypsy Wedding, Arjen J. Zwart
Tue, May 17
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Arjen Zwart’s book ‘No One Dies at a Gypsy Wedding’, a photobook which Arjen witnesses life of Roma community and shows an intimate and personal insight into the lives of the family members over a period of 18 years., will meet the audience with moderation of Ali Saltan on 17 May Tuesday at 19:30.
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May 17, 2022, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM GMT+3
Ka, Cinnah Cd. No:1 D:B, 06690 Cankaya/Ankara, Turkey
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Book Launch
No One Dies at a Gypsy Wedding
Arjen Zwart & Ali Saltan
17.05.2022, Tue 7.30 pm
Arjen Zwart’s book ‘No One Dies at a Gypsy Wedding’, a photobook which Arjen witnesses life of Roma community and shows an intimate and personal insight into the lives of the family members over a period of 18 years, will meet the audience with moderation of Ali Saltan on 17 May Tuesday at 19:30.
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The conversation language is English and there will be consecutive translation.
The event is free and open to all, no registration is required.
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Arjen Zwart Is an independent photographer (The Netherlands), specialized in slow documentary photography. Arjen started photography in 1986. He is attracted by the possibilities the camera offers to tell visual stories. He has made reportages and social documentaries in India, South East Asia, the Netherlands and Turkey. Arjen is co-founder of Dog Food, a photography magazine that mainly combines archival material with a touch of cynicism.
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Ali Saltan (1982). He is particularly interested in the issues related to border, identity, and immigration in the context of political and cultural geography, subcultures, urban memory, surplus, and gentrification. He studied Sociology at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, and received his MA in Gender and Women’s Studies from Ankara University in 2010. He worked as an instructor in various photography-related courses at Başkent University and Ankara University between 2010 and 2018. Also, he worked as an editor, visual consultant, sociologist and media director for a multitude of platforms. Currently, he works on commissioned photography and video projects for several NGOs. He lives and works in between Çanakkale and Ankara, and is an affiliate of PLATFORM by GAPO.
