Tayfun Serttas : Studio Osep

10 Nov-10 Dec 2010

Overview

Osep Minasoglu is one of the oldest living studio portrait photographers of Istanbul. Current resident artist Tayfun Serttas has been collecting, recording and classifying his works for the past 10 years. Presented as a body, and placed on a parallel perspective with the history of the Turkish Republic, these personal testimonies of individual memory gain a collective meaning: they articulate the social contradictions embedded in the recent history of the city. For The Delfina Foundation, the Studio Osep archive has been re-curated to achieve new and poetic associations. The selected photographs focus on the transforming everyday practices that have shaped the making of modern Turkey and question the evolving function of vernacular photography in relation to discourses around identity and the grander narrative of history.