TITLE: Upside Down

End of Winter in the Taurus Mountains, Türkiye. The photograph was intentionally composed upside down during the shooting process to reflect the photographer’s feeling of seasonal transition.

AUTHOR: Cagan Cankirili (Turkey)

Çağan Çankırılı was born in Ankara in 1982. After graduating from TED Ankara College, he completed his undergraduate studies in Graphic Design at Bilkent University in 2004. In 2008, he earned his master’s degree at Hacettepe University, specializing in design for wine packaging. Following several years of professional practice, he resumed his academic career at Anadolu University, Department of Graphic Design, and in 2019, he received his PhD with a dissertation entitled “Augmented Reality as a New Medium for Meaning Production in Graphic Design”. He is currently a full-time faculty member at Istanbul Yeditepe University. Mostly his research and artworks are about XR, photography and the usage of graphic design in an artistic way.