Does the eye emigrate with the body?

I left Ankara and Istanbul with a suitcase. I did not know I had also packed a way of looking. Years later in Berlin I kept photographing the same things: a hand holding on, a window with something beyond it, whatever the street throws away.

These pairs are not comparisons. They are the same glance, made twice, in two countries.

Perhaps the city changes and the eye does not. Perhaps it is the other way around.

Filmmaker, photographer and director, working across film, documentary, installation and cultural programming. Born in Ankara, based in Berlin.

He started making films in Ankara at thirteen. At seventeen he shot a public service film that aired on every national channel in Türkiye, and founded the Ankara Cinema Community, organising screenings and short film productions in a city with almost no infrastructure for independent cinema.

A scholarship took him to the photography programme at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul, where he worked on directing crews at Böcek Yapım, Ptot Film and Dinamo İstanbul. In 2018 he stopped on purpose and spent half a year with a backpack across Europe and South America. Back in Istanbul he founded Cambio Film Works and Cambio Global, which he now runs from Berlin.

In Berlin he founded hush, and was artistic programming lead at Tanz der Kulturen Berlin e.V. from 2025 to 2026. His debut feature, oranges are not aware of sin, is in development; unfiltered, a thirty-screen installation, is in post-production.

Education

• Cannes Film Festival, T-Port TalentBridge, 2026
• YAPIMLAB Istanbul, producers' workshop, 2021
• Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, photography and video
• AFSAD, Ankara Photography Artists Association, 2010–2011

Member

• Bundesverband Regie (BVR)
• Türkiye Sinema TV Sendikası