Those Who Go #1

From “TAVAF” series, 2013

15.000 × 3.900 px

Edition: 1/1

We go to jobs we don’t like, commute during rush hour with the military discipline of ants automated to work. We repeat this routine more often than we want to. The capitalist system mechanizes us, regardless of our human needs, and promises us to give back our commoditized natural rights in return for our labor. This work is part of a photography series that aims to question the reality everybody is aware of, but simply tries to ignore.

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Creation process: For three months, I took more than 500 photos in metro stations in Istanbul. The photos were taken while people use the subway for their commute. Every time a subway arrives, the doors open for just a few seconds. I tried to capture the sleepless, tired and dull portraits of people rather than the crowd in the subway. To create this work I combined multiple photos taken at different times into one panorama.