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This year’s Photo London moves with swagger after last year’s experiment, asserting itself as an international event of note, clear and focussed rather than brash, assured rather than overproduced.
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Born 1978 in Roosendaal, The Netherlands, Polat lives and works in Istanbul and the Netherlands. His photographs document human nature, changing social demographics and tides of immigration. He has traveled throughout the Netherlands and Turkey for his work and has captured the effects on people of the devastating Marmara earthquake of 1999, the rapid gentrification of the areas of the Golden Horn in Istanbul and of international and national immigration. Polat not only looks to the streets for inspiration, he also actively involves himself in the various private, social gatherings of different walks of society in order to capture relationships in either more personal, or sometimes more contrived environments.
Polat was the recipient of ICP’s (International Center of Photography) “Young Photographer” award in 2006. He has shown extensively in the Netherlands and in Turkey. Recent exhibitions include Kemal’s Dream, FOAM, Amsterdam (2010); Fluorescent Adolescent, 7th Intern. Biennale of Photography, Glaspaleis, Heerlen (2010); Art-Amsterdam, Gallery R.A.M (2009); Frankfurt, FFFI Gallery (2009); National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2009); Neither here nor There, FotoPub Festival, Slovenia (2009); Collection of Hans Kemna, De Hallen in Haarlem (2008); The Mirror Between Us, Brunnenpassage, Vienna (2008).
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
