Dr Amani Ballour, in her home in Gaziantep, a southern Turkish city close to the Syrian border. Shot for The Times Magazine.
Erkan Arikan, the man behind the code which enabled the development of 5G Technology, in his office at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Shot for WIRED
Orhan Pamuk, Turkish author, shot for The Sunday Times
Ebru Özdemir, Chairperson of Limak Investments, at their headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey. Shot for the Financial Times
Burak Ayaz, bartender and co-owner of Istanbul cocktail bar Fahri Konsolos. Shot for Culinary Backstreets
Halil in Izmir, shot for The Guardian
Mr Hancioglu, shot for laif/HDI
Gaye Su Akyol, Turkish singer and performer in her home-studio in Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey. 2022. Shot for the Financial Times
Mehmet Gürs, chef, for Monocle Magazine
Kerimcan Guleryuz, founder of The Empire Project in Istanbul, for MONOCLE Magazine
Meral Akşener, iyi Party leader, for Dagens Nyheter
Asil Nadir, at home in North Cyprus. Shot for The Times Magazine
Ibrahim Kalin, chief adviser to the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and deputy chairman of the Security and Foreign Policy Council of the Turkish Presidency. Portrait taken in Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, Turkey. 24th September 2021
Yigit Aksakoglu, for the FT
Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu in his office in central Istanbul, January 2021. Shot for Der Spiegel
Nilhan Osmanoglu outside her shop and cafe, Nilhan Sultan Kosku, on the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey. Shot for Dagens Nyheter
Erkan Arikan, the man behind the code which enabled the development of 5G Technology, in his office at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Shot for WIRED
CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu in his office at the CHP headquarters in Ankara, Turkey. Shot for DPA
Eda Eryalçın Topçu - Marine biologist at Istanbul University during a research dive in the Marmara Sea surrounding Istanbul. Shot for The Financial Times
Magid Hamed Yasin, Iraqi human rights activist, shot for Buzzfeed News.
Bella, a trans woman from Turkey claiming asylum in Sweden due to threats she received due to her gender identity. She lives in Stockholm with her husband. Shot for Gayropa
13 year old Sharzad, from Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, sitting under a road bridge in the city of Tatvan, where he has slept the past few nights, out of sight from the Turkish authorities. Shot for The Globe&Mail
Khaled Abdul Hadi, founder of Amman based MyKali magazine in Jordan. Shot for PROFIL Magazine
Gülsüm Kav poses for a portrait in central Istanbul, Turkey. June 2021. Gülsüm Kav is a Turkish feminist activist, writer and doctor. She is one of the founders of the organisation We Will Stop Femicide Platform, who raise awareness of gender-based violence in Turkey and campaign on behalf of the families of victims of femicide. Shot for The Guardian
Vahide Şefkatlıoğlu, 40, in her hospital room in Istanbul, Turkey. Vahide lost one of her legs and severly injured another when a tank ran her over on the 15th of July 2016 during a failed coup d'etat in Turkey.
Ali, a journalist and gay man from Uzbekistan who now lives in Berlin, Germany. He received political asylum due to threats he faced because of his identity, and his work as a journalist. Shot for Gayropa
Brigitte Weber, Austrian architect who designed the Trump Towers in Istanbul. Shot for Die Presse.
Pelin Ünker, shot for Die ZEIT
16 year old Abdulkader al-Ali is a fighter with the group Ahrar al-Sham, who are fighting the Syrian Regime in northern areas of the country. He prays at a friends home in Sanliurfa, Turkey, during a break from fighting in Syria. Shot for Helsingin Sanomat.
Kadri Gürsel, Turkish journalist for Cumhurriyet newspaper, shot for Helsingin Sanomat. April 2018
Abdel Basset Sarout. Shot for Society Magazine (France)
Maya, Syrian business woman in Jordan for Der SPIEGEL
Samer al Kadri, the owner of Pages bookshop, a rare establishment where customers can find a range of Arabic, Turkish, French and English language books. Shot for Huffington Post
Hüseyn Yıldız, the Imam at the Çamçukur mosque. Originally from Bursa he was been stationed in the village for several years. Shot for Dagens Nyheter
Mohamed, Syrian child in school, former child labourer, Amman, Jordan.
Andreas Vetr has lived in Turkey for 23 years, and works for an HR consulting company based in Istanbul. Photographed at the Hilton Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey. Shot for Die Presse
Syrian chemical weapons expert, shot for the Washington Post
'Mariam', for Der Spiegel
Petra Holzer Özgüven, Austrian documentary film maker who has lived in Istanbul for more than twenty years. Shot for Die Presse
Kadri Gürsel, Turkish journalist for the Cumhurriyet newspaper in Istanbul, Turkey on 23rd April 2018. Shot for Helsingin Sanomat.
Ahmet Davutoglu, former Turkish PM and foreign minister. Shot for the Financial Times.
Shot for Financial Times
Turkish journalist Canan Çoskun at the offices of Cumhuriyet newspaper where she works. Several of her former colleagues are now in prison or self imposed exile abroad. Bradley Secker for POLITICO
Muhammed, a member of Syria's Civil Defence, also known as the 'White Helmets.' Shot for The White Helmets
Amar, a 20 year old member of Syrian Civil Defence, also known as the 'White Helmets' during a training session in southern Turkey. Shot for The White Helmets
Gardenia, a member of the Syrian Civil Defence, also known as the 'White Helmets' at a training session in southern Turkey. Shot for The White Helmets
Mir, a Bangladeshi gay activist and human rights defender near his home in the suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden. He received political asylum in Sweden after his ex boyfriend was murdered by religious extremists in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Shot for Gayropa.
TNT - Palestinian rapper, Lebanon.
Ms Demiral working at the small textile factory in her village of Çamçukur. Women from the village and nearby work in the small scale factory. Shot for Dagens Nyheter
Fatma Aydemir. Shot for Fatma Aydemir
LGBT activist in Amman, Jordan
Aslı Erdoğan, shot for Le Figaro
Ziad Homsi, a Syrian citizen photojournalist working to cover the conflict in Damascus province, and northern Syria. Shot for The New Republic
Syrian photographer Ziad Homsi working on his images from his temporary home in Reyhanli, on Turkey's border with north-western Syria. Shot for The New Republic
Hashish dealer, Pakistan.
Mr Gay Syria 2016, Hussein Sabat.