“Donetsk” is a city situated in eastern Ukraine. More specifically, “Donetsk” is the blended result of my impressions about an era, a country, a city, a people that I experienced through my significant other.
Gözde Türkkan, “Donetsk”, Series of 16 photographic sequences, 2008
"baktım sana dönüp baktığımda baktın mı bana / I was looking to see if you were looking at me to see me looking back at you" Book Photos
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This book embodies some of my deepest fears, complexes, desires and stimulations. These are carried to a next level as I projected them into this physical fetishistic object and I now declare my independence from them.
And I sated.
Gözde Türkkan, baktim sana dönüp baktigimda baktin mi bana / I was looking to see if you were looking at me to see me looking back at you, 29x36cm, 104 pages, 2008
Gözde Türkkan, Şükran / Gratitude, 198 Polaroid, 2004-2008
I have not much to say.
I did not take the last photograph.
If I did, I would have been a different person now; or maybe I would have taken it if I were a different person.
That nonexistent photograph belongs to one of my “decisive moments”.
The last photograph is absent, the same way she is. Maybe that’s the whole story.