TITLE: Still Standing

A long exposure photo of an old wooden pier on a fishing town where fishermen use to tie their boats.

The pier was so old that some parts were broken making it impossible to stand on it. However the pillars were still there. Even though there were deformations caused by moist they were strong enough to handle the weight of the small fishing boats when tied.

The processing was done to bring out the details in the worn out texture of the pillars and ropes. Therefore to eliminate all other objects, and direct full attention to the subject, other details on the background and horizon were faded in processing.

In addition to this, the processing was done to come up with a calm, minimalistic finish.

AUTHOR: Pelin Genç (Turkey)

Pelin Genç is a multi-disciplinary photographer. Her main areas of interest are landscape, architectural street, and minimalist photography. She has a passion for long exposures and likes to blend her long exposure style in all genres she works on.

She likes to use soft, calming colors and a simple, clean, minimalist style in her long exposure photographs.

In her B&W work, she blends her minimalist style with use of graphics, light, shadows and contrast.

She looks for beauty, aesthetics and visually appealing scenes and photographs them.

Since 2017, her works have been displayed at various exhibitions in Turkiye, on minimalist, street and landscape photography. Some of her works were published and awarded.

Her photos were displayed in several NFT exhibitions in 2022, 2023 and 2024 (including NFT NYC, NFT Bucharest and several gallery exhibitions in Rome, Bali and Beijing).

In 2016-2018, she wrote blog posts for a photography training center and conducted workshops on time lapse photography and long exposure photography. Her photo tours and workshops in long exposure photography and photo editing will continue in 2024.

She has two IRL collective exhibitions scheduled for Q1-2024.


Currently, she is working on several collective photography projects with local and international artists.

She lives in Istanbul.


Exhibitions:

2017 Various photography exhibitions

2018 Composition in Photography (All genres)

2018 ArtAnkara Contemporary Art Fair

2018 İstanbul, Day and Night (Street and Life Photography)

2018 Récontre a Paris (Street and Travel Photography)

2018 Waiting, Photofocus (Conceptual Photography)

2018 Nature and Landscapes, Photofocus (Nature and Landscape Photography)

2019 Reflections from the Historical Peninsula (Street and Life Photography)

2020 Less is More (Minimalist Photography)

2021 Color and Graphics (Minimalist Photography)

2021 In Quarantine (Self portrait and Still Life Photography)

2021 Architecture and Human in Istanbul (Architectural and Street Photography)

2022 MilkyWay and Star Trails (MilkyWay and Night Sky Photography)

2022 NFT NYC – Times Square Sloika Platform

2022 Provenance in Focus, Sloika Exhibition in Mecenate Fine Art Gallery, Rome