Good Dog, 2012
Co-published by Espas (Turkey) & Filigranes (France)
80 Pages, 44 Images
Clothbound hardcover
21 x 27 cm
Turkish/English
The only significant text found in Good Dog comes from the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. It begins, “Life is an experimental journey that we make involuntarily. It is a journey of the mind through matter, and since it is the mind that journeys, that is where we live.” It is a successful use of the quotation, particularly relevant to Sevincli’s photographs.
Good Dog, as title, is a nod to Daido Moriyama famous Stray Dog image. The parallels between these two photographers are obvious: every picture a mixture of what is dirty, irreverent and dreamlike with that which is crystal clear; the overwhelming darkness that brings to mind coolness, and for book collectors — the smell of ink; the mundane, the erotic, and the charged coexisting; the sense of a world that is all movement without sound. Both concrete and abstract, these are themes in Moriyama’s work that have found Sevincli and impressed, impressively even, his photography.
But an homage to Moriyama would be selling Good Dog under a very small portion of its worth - at which point I interject, this photobook is one of the best, most haunting and powerful that I have encountered since undertaking a discourse on the subject; rarely is a photobook as immediate as this without utilizing some brutality of fact. Good Dog is melancholic, eccentric and, perhaps, a bit eerie, but it is not brutal nor does it evoke dream. Good Dog has the impression of a memory.
MARSEILLE(S)
Published by Le Bec en L'Air Editions in partnership with Le Percolateur48 Pages, 28 Images
Softcover
16,5 x 22 cm
Text: Christian Garcin
French/English
ISBN : 978-2-36744-066-8
September 2013
Association Le Percolateur in Marseille offers each year a carte blanche to a Mediterranean photographer who delivers his vision of the city of Marseille. Over the years, the diversity of photographic language outlines the portrait of a multicultural city from a different auter's view.
The first title of the collection presents the work of Yusuf Sevinçli, a young Turkish photographer exhibited around the world. Of a harsh contrasted b&w images with thick grain and scratched surfaces, his almost compulsive shots of the daily life, made of wandering and instability, propose a subjective and profound vision of the city of Marseille.
The photographs are accompanied by a text by the writer Christian Garcin who grew up in Marseille.
WALKING (VICHY)
Published by Filigranes Editions in partnership with Portraits(s) Festival, Vichy
72 Pages, 55 Images
Clothbound hardcover
21,5 x 31 cm
Text: Natacha Wolinski
French/English
ISBN : 978-2-35046-360-5
June 2015
Walking is the outcome of Yusuf Sevincli's one month artist residency in the small town Vichy, France. Famillier of urban areas, it has stepped up meetings in the heart of his stay in Vichy in March 2015, pushing the door bars, restaurants, associations, but also apartments and houses, taking time to talk to everyone, creating a link that gives each portrait intimate dimension.
"Through his gripping, nomadic lens, the spa city of Art Nouveau façades and neo-classical villas parts company with its history, its geography, to become a stage for encounters and adventures, a place to indulge in mental projection, a visual poem. Thanks to Sevinçli, Vichy awakens from a strange dream, becoming brighter, more nervous, and evermore elusive." — Natacha Wolinksi
PUT
16 x12 cm Leporello Book
Duotone Offset printing
20 monochrome images
Hardcover with a silkscreen jacket
English/Turkish
Photographs: Yusuf Sevinçli
Design: AtaKam
Text: Nilüfer Şaşmazer
Edition of 250
Signed & numbered
‘Put’ is a photographic series about vandalized, deformed and destroyed monuments and sculptures in public spaces in Turkey.
It is an investigation to understand people's urge to express themselves through destruction of symbols in Turkey.
“Put” series was commissioned for the exhibition “Envy, Enmity, Embarrassment” curated by Emre Baykal held at
ARTER Museum, Istanbul between 24 January-7 April 2013. The photographs were shot in Istanbul,
Ankara, Eskişehir, Diyarbakır, Trabzon, Kars and Erzurum, Turkey in October 2012.
Put (tr): Idol (eng)
Idol: noun A representation of a god used as an object of worship.
The "Put" series traces the faith of sculptures and monuments in public spaces. In addition to focusing on a single narrative,
each photograph tells the story of the polarization and the struggle for power in Turkey through the current state and
fate of public sculptures in Turkey. Although it does not have a documentary tone, globally the series contains
a political dimension.
What is intriguing about these photographs is their scope: Wherever they might be, these representations often
fall victim to vandalism. What is attacked is not only an object, but all the meanings, side meanings that it represent
as well as its supporters. Those who follow the pattern of this destructive expression can also sense the sensitivities
of Turkish society.
Therefore, the subjects of these photographs are not objects or symbols, but rather the attitude
or mentality which tries to express itself or harm the opponent by destruction of symbols.
Regardless of the content, the theme, the symbolism it contains; even if they are known by or almost 'invisible'
to the majority,these sculptures and monuments are all attacked and vandalized in a way.
Some have been displaced, some have been broken
into pieces; and some of them were the subject of the lawsuit followed by the public…
Whichever authority or
ideology they represent, these sculptures, each with its own separate story, share a similar destiny,
and their paths intersect in the same story.
Nilüfer Şaşmazer
Oculus
Design by Valentina Abenavoli
21x31 cm Leporello bound hardcover
Duotone Offset printing
15 images
Printed at Mas, Istanbul
Print run: 1000
Galerist & Galerie Filles du Calvaire
ISBN 978-605-63941-4-0
https://tipi-bookshop.be/shop/oculus-by-yusuf-sevincli/
ARALIK
Collectively selfpublished!
14,5 x 19,5 cm Book
15 x 21 cm Cardboard slipcase
96 pages (all pages are double gatefold)
79 images (b/w) + 24 poster images (b/w)
Contains posters within its pages
Softcover (hand stamped)
Double Tone Xerox print
Edition of 65
December 2015
ARALIK : The space in between
4-11 December 2015, 8 friends got together in Istanbul to exchange ideas and creating a publication within a week.
The resulting book is a photographic reflection of 8 individual point of views in a collective way. Aralik is a book, also a poster exhibition!
Artists and title of the works;
⁃ Alex Bocchetto _ Ara Bosluk
⁃ Ata Kam _ Here and Now
⁃ Eva Lechner _ Zielfuhrende Abfolge
⁃ Gorkem Ergun _ 2512
⁃ Irem Sozen _ Bound to Happen
⁃ Ozgur Atlagan _ Ohama’da Dograma
⁃ Sinem Disli _ Oyuk
⁃ Yusuf Sevincli _ Put