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#5 - GRIT

Collection

At the Epicenter of COVID-19

Creator

F. DILEK UYAR

Description

The conditions under which healthcare providers cared for patients in the ICU during COVID-19 were extremely challenging and strenuous. Personal protective equipment played a huge role in protecting healthcare professionals but also came with unique challenges. One of those challenges was that the protective glasses used by the medical personnel would fog up in no time and blur their vision. ICU professionals prevented this from happening by taping their noses well before putting on glasses. This made breathing difficult, but it was not a matter of choice. I wore the same PPE gear as healthcare professionals and the intensity of uneasiness and claustrophobia I felt being in that gear for extended periods of times is indescribable. What healthcare professionals went through being in protective gear every single day is a testament to their grit, determination, passion and calling for caring for other humans. F. Dilek Uyar Edition: 15/15 Size: 3000*2000 Awards for collection or photos from this collection: 2021 - 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Photo Awards - Best Documentary & Reportage Photographer 2021 - Xposure photo - Tapsa winner 2021 - Awarded in HIPA 2021 - 6th 35 Awards - Best Reportage photographer Of the Year 2020 - IPA - Photographer of the Year (Deeper Perspective) 2020 - Chromatic Awards - 1st Place Winner in Photojournalism 2020 - IPA - Photographer of the Year (Deeper Perspective) 2020 - IPA - 1st Place Winner (Deeper Perspective) 2020 - RISE - International Documentary Photographer of the Year 2020 - IPA - Winner (Editorial/Press) 2020 - IPA - Runner Up (Editorial /Press) 2020 - IPA - Discovery Of the Year About F. Dilek Uyar: Dilek is a highly accomplished travel and documentary photographer from Ankara, Turkey. Dilek is also a lawyer and a skilled sky diver. She took up photography as an escape from the courthouse and life, after she quit sky diving. That spark turned into a fire which led her to be named National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year in 2017. Fighting through challenges that are typical to what women face in male dominated spheres, she has not only made many proud with her accomplishments but has also inspired a whole new generation of female photographers. Dilek, a TEDx speaker, is also a contributing photographer of National Geographic YS and National Geographic Turkey. She teaches photography at Ankara Bilim University in Ankara, Turkey. She is also a jurist for some of the most prestigious photography awards in the world, such as those given by National Geographic. In 2020, she was named IPA Photographer of the Year (Deeper Perspective). In 2021, she was named Best Reportage Photographer of the Year at the 6th 35 Awards. She was also named Sony World Photography Award and was the third-place winner at the HIPA Humanity Awards (Story Telling). As a female photographer, lawyer, and mother from Turkey, she is a big champion of women’s rights and issues and advocates for saying yes to change. Her goal is to increase social awareness and recognition with her stories and to inspire young women in her country and all over the world. License: Primary NFT holder is free to use in advertising, display privately and in groups, including virtual galleries, documentaries, and essays by holder of the NFT, as long as creator is credited. Provides no rights to create commercial merchandise, commercial distribution, or derivative works. Copyright remains with creator.