Turkey

Murat Yazar is a Kurdish photographer from Eastern Turkey. In 2006, he worked with Turkey's leading photographers at Fototrek Photography Center in Istanbul. He has been working as a freelance...

Fariba Nawa is the host and editor of the On Spec podcast, which she co-founded with a group of freelance journalists in 2019. Nawa is an award-winning investigative journalist who has covered wars...

Michael Downey is a documentary filmmaker from Alaska, based in Istanbul, Turkey. He is the 2022 recipient of Picture of the Year International’s Documentary Award of Excellence for his short...

Francisco Seco, from the Canary Islands, Spain, is a self-taught news photographer based in Istanbul, Turkey. Seco earned a bachelor of sociology degree from the University of A Coruña in Spain in...

Katie Nadworny is an Istanbul-based writer who specializes in stories at the intersection of culture and politics in Turkey, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Her work has appeared in National...

Naomi is a freelance journalist now based in Istanbul. Her reporting has covered issues of access to land, resource conflict, digital surveillance, and minority and migrant rights. She has written for...

John Beck is an award-winning journalist based in Istanbul. His work is focused primarily on conflict and its aftermaths and has been published by outlets including GQ, Wired, The Atlantic, and The...

Journalist Hannah Lucinda Smith has been based in Turkey since 2013, reporting across the Middle East and Europe for The Times of London, The Atlantic, WIRED, and others. She is the author of Erdogan...

Bradley Secker is a British freelance photojournalist based in Istanbul, Turkey. His personal work often focuses on themes of identity, migration, social and political actions, and the ramifications...

Emin Özmen studied photography in the Fine Arts Faculty at Marmara University of Istanbul, and in Linz (Austria). In 2011, he worked on the famine in East Africa, the Tohoku Earthquake in Japan, and...