Yeşim Gedik
Born in [1976] Istanbul, Turkey
Resides and works in Miami & Istanbul
Born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, Yesim earned her BA, in Interior Design and Environmental Design and started her career as an interior architect in New York City, USA and having dual citizenship she worked many years in both countries, accumulating a vast and diversified experience. She expressed her creativity through design and started photography as a medium of inspiration and documentation. And through years she evolved into experimentation.With a discerning eye for color, balance and composition, uncommon to traditional photography she uses tools for digital imaging and editing to blur the boundary between reality and perception.
Through her lens, Yesim Gedik captures the overlooked silhouettes and reflections of the urban landscape and architecture as well as the nuance and beauty of the nature and human form. In her compositions, she uses the art of photography as a medium of experimentation. She often uses fragments and layers of photographs together to create her own visual illusion to reinvent something new from its original context giving a different perspective to the familiar. Since 2024 she had two solo exhibitions and been in major art fairs such as “Contemporary Istanbul”.
Education/training:
ICP International Center of Photography School
Digital Photography/ 2019
Pratt Institute
Master of Professional Studies, Design Management/ 2004 Bilkent University
Bachelor of Arts, BA, Interior Architecture and Environmental Design/ 1999
Robert College Major in Social Sciences/ 1995
Artist Statement
“What Do You See?”
It seems obvious that we all see things differently. Yet we constantly forget and act as if there is only one true way to see. No two people will see anything exact, same way. Everything from our inherited biology to our learned biases influenced the way we take in the world. Not only do we as individuals observe, notice and gather information differently, we also perceive what we’ve gathered differently. Each person brings along his or her own unique experience, history, education, background and viewpoint.
To see what’s there that others don’t.
To see what’s not there that should be.
To see what we want to see.
To see what we’ re told to see.
