Alican Akcol
- alicanakcol
- Kalkan Belediyesi, Kaş/Antalya, Turkey
- Shooter
- 402pts
- Art
- Events
- Fashion
- Food and Drink
- Home
- Landscape
- Portraiture
- Street
- Travel
- Weddings
Creative Statement
I saved up for my first camera at 16, and haven’t put one down since. Growing up in a seaside town on the Southern coast of Turkey, I honed my observational skills among the bustle of seasonal holiday-makers and in the silence of those natural landscapes of startling beauty, that were my solitary haunts. In Istanbul I studied graphic design at Adobe. Even during my mandatory military service I was positioned as a photographer. It proved to be an intense grounding exercise in developing skills and giving me a better sense for capturing that raw reality. I’m touched most by the people I meet and the lives I encounter. They are what fire my passion for my work, driving me to look for beauty in the truth of a moment; a person; a place.
