cult of self magazine issue #6 | Page 48

Can Dagarslani, an Istanbul-based photographer, started taking pictures while studying architecture at Mimar Sinan University of Fine Art, Istanbul. Never having studied photography, he realised while taking landscape shots of cities to study their ‘architectural plan’ that firing the shutter gives him goosebumps. Later on, he put aside his digital camera and started shooting analogue – which truly triggered his photographic inclination. With Mirror – shot on film with the use of scanned negatives – he plays with the emotional intensity that occurs when two different characters come together. His advice being ‘to let the subconscious take over’ when he shoots, the subjects are – for the most part – left alone by the camera’s gaze. Merely in the opening shot does the viewer intrude while the models stare back at the camera, but for the rest of the series it seems as though they let loose without being seen.