Tezos

In a Hotel Room

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Description

All throughout my life, I have had long hair but at the beginning of the pandemic I cut them extremely short. By the time I took this photo, they had started to grow. I had also lost a lot of weight while I was working on my Covid photo project under challenging circumstances. When I came back home, I wondered whether I got infected, and with that anxious waiting, I gained exactly 20 kilos which later went away with time. I took this photo in a hotel room in Akşehir, Turkey in April 2021 and at this moment, the light, the colors, the shadows, my past and present, my dreams and my disappointments all intertwined in that hotel room. Akşehir is a place in which I have listened to myself. I had gone there seeking the story of an Armenian who had gone from Turkey many years ago but I found myself instead. Another selfportrait F. Dilek Uyar Edition:20/20 Size: 3000*2000 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.