Photography in Days of Pandemic
İzzet Keribar, 1936 AUTO-MOTIVE, 2020
Digital photograph

Confined at home during the corona days, I had a few things to do related to photography, especially on the first few days. I organized my archive; I went down to the communal garden in our apartment complex and focused on taking photographs of spring branches and buds of flowers... Spending time in the garden those first few days was very pleasant, but after a while, when I started to get that “am I repeating myself” feeling, my eyes caught a glimpse of those beautiful cars that were parked next to one another. And before I knew it I began accumulating close-up photographs of various vehicles – shutters, taillights, headlights and wheel covers. In order to make them more appealing to viewers, I picked 25 of them and designed a poster collage...