INTRODUCING EYLUL ASLAN
I have been living in Istanbul since I was born and for the last 10 years, I have been doing my best to leave. I am 20. I would stay forever 18 if I could. I started taking pictures in 2008. I always wanted to remember everything. Photography helps me connect with myself. When I take pictures, I feel like I am filling an immense void inside me and make it visible to others. Seeing is a way of understanding. So, all I really want is to be understood by others and by myself. Besides that, photography is a good excuse to travel around the world. Travels make you grow, help you find answers, help you get to know who you are. I wish I could spend every week in a different city. I am not really a camera freak. I only use my mother’s old analogue camera, Nikon F90X and I love it. This is photo of a sunset in Milano in the summer of 2009. A year ago, in 2008, in Paris, I thought I had met the one. I was eighteen. In Milano, I thought I had finally left him. I was nineteen. But he never existed, he lived inside my head all along. Everything was an illusion. That day when I saw that sunset in Milano, the part of me that was possessed by him, died. Burnt in the sunshine. It was gone forever. The light showed me the way. To be honest, I am not really following any photographers, but I really like Lukasz Wierzbowski’s photos: the poses and the light.
