By Fatih Erel
GENEVA (AA) – An exhibition featuring the work of Yildiz Moran, the first female Turkish photographer with an academic education, was held Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland on International Women's Day.
A reception was held by the Turkish Consulate-General and was attended by Moran's two sons, Gun and Ongun Arun, Turkish ambassadors, foreign guests and Turkish citizens in Switzerland.
“A very strong and pioneering woman is a leading role model today. We have the honor to exhibit the works of art of the first female Turkish photographer with an academic education, Yildiz Moran, ” said the Turkish Consul General in Geneva, Mehmet Sait Uyanik, following a celebration of International Women's Day at the reception.
“Yildiz Moran is the first female Turkish photographer with an academic education, and she believed that the camera should be so much a part of one’s being that there should be no barrier between oneself and the subject, ” said a statement on her official website.
“She was of the opinion that anything of a poetic character is a proper subject of photography and declared that her sole aim was to take photographs containing a certain concept of the topic modified and universalized through the medium of photography, ” it said.
Moran, who died in 1995, was particularly interested in photographs depicting the life of the Anatolian people.
