Discover Top News Shooters / Video Journalists in Istanbul, Turkey

Atılgan Özdil is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and visual journalist currently based in Istanbul. He is highly creative, entrepreneurial, and accomplished photographer with an indelible reputation for operating a range of cameras and image-enhancing equipment, visiting locations to obtain photographs of people for journalistic purposes, recruiting freelancer visual journalists, and editing photographs for publication in outlets like magazines, newspapers. Strong experience in covering international and humanitarian affairs, politics, and immigration in intense deadline-driven environments in the field and newsroom. Knowledge in using various photographic techniques and lighting equipment, capturing subjects through commercial-quality photographs, and maintaining a good digital portfolio of completed work. Exhibit expertise in sports photography, art photography, commercial photography, fashion photography, and advertising movies. His work has been published and recognized by Times Magazine, New York Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, US Magazine, Cosmopolitan, CNN, NBC, The Atlantic, Rolling Stones among many others.

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• Drone Operator
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
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I'm a British freelance photojournalist, based in Istanbul, Turkey. My personal work often focuses on themes of identity, migration, social and political actions, and the ramifications of those for individuals. I regularly cover stories about how identity shapes lives in challenging and unexpected ways, particularly within sexual and ethnic minority groups. Regularly working covering feature stories, and portrait assignments in Turkey, the Balkans, and the Middle East, for a range of international newspapers, magazines, and online news media. My long-term project Kütmaan (started in 2010) tells the stories of LGBTI asylum seekers, refugees, and IDPs in and from the Middle East, forced to flee their countries and lives for reasons connected with their sexuality and/or gender identity. This work led to my latest ongoing body of personal work called Gayropa - a visual documentation on queer migration to Europe. Based in Istanbul, Turkey since early 2012, but traveling often. Began my career freelancing across South/Central Asia 2005-2010.

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• Documentary DP
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Portrait Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Event Photographer

He was born in Kars, Turkey in 1983. He wrote his thesis about the cinema of Tarkovsky. Mintaş’s short Snow, completed in 2010, received the Golden Orange for best film in Antalya Film Festival that is one of the most prestigious awards in Turkey. Snow has competed in various film festivals in the country and around the world won eight different awards. His debut feature Song of My Mother was selected for co-production markets and work-in-progress sections in Meetings on the Bridge at Istanbul IFF, Agora at Thessaloniki IFF, Sundance Script Lab at !f Istanbul. It received the post-production and distribution award at Meetings on the Bridge. The film was supported by Turkish Ministry of Culture and CNC Cinema du Monde. Song of My Mother, won Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Film and Best Actor Award in 2014, in the country and around the world film won fourteen different awards.

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• Video Editor - News
• Sound Mixer
• Fixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Translator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
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• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
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15 years of international experience in offline and online content production. Special focus on video storytelling, branded video content and live broadcast. Managed countless projects from concept phase to final delivery, ensuring the final products are published with the best new media strategies. I enjoy working for international productions as a freelance local producer. I am proud to have worked on the Istanbul episode of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown, which aired on CNN International in November 2016. It was a great honor which came after also producing Mr. Bourdain’s previous format, No Reservations in 2009. I also had the opportunity to appear in front of camera to eat, drink and chat with Mr. Bourdain in both shows.

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• Drone Operator
• Reporter / Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - News
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
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• Translator
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant
• Full-Service Live Production
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture

Özge Sebzeci is a photographer and journalist based in Istanbul, Turkey. Born next to the Bosphorus, Özge’s reporting and photography reveals a seldom-seen Turkey. Özge’s work, often combining documentary and art photography, caught the eye of the Magnum Foundation which awarded her a fellowship. She aims to explore underreported stories with a focus on gender and migration with an intimate approach. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Huffington Post, News Deeply, NRC Handelsblad, De Standaard, and VG, among others. Her master's thesis is about the ethics of long-term documentary photography. She is the recipient of the 2018 Marilyn Stafford Fotoreportage award. She is fluent in English, Turkish and French.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
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• Fixer
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Freelance multimedia journalist, filmmaker and designer with over 5 years of experience in various fields, and fluency in English, Russian and Turkish. Born and raised in Almaty, Kazakhstan, I moved to Istanbul, Turkey, in 2018 to pursue 3 Communications degrees: Communication Design, Journalism and Film & TV. From 2019 until now, I created various multimedia designs as a freelancer, and got nominated at GMK Design Awards; Reported news features from Turkey, Kazakhstan and Georgia; while also working as a photojournalist for these stories; Got published in: The Guardian, New Arab, TV Rain, Meduza and Fayn Studio; Was interviewed live as an expert journalist at TV Rain, commenting on Turkey's context on femicide rates and the femicide of Russian anti-war activist in Erzurum.

• TV News Producer
• Art Director
• Storyboard Artist
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Graphic Designer
• Illustrator
• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
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• Event Photographer
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• Field Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Digital Content Creator
• Social Media Producer
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• Corporate Videographer
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• Animator / Visual Effects Artist
• Product Photographer

Correspondent and video journalist based in Istanbul. I have been working as a writer and broadcast journalist for over 15 years with some of the world’s leading media organisations, delivering creative, high quality audio, video and digital storytelling to diverse audiences across the globe. A multimedia and multi-platform journalist by nature; I write, shoot, produce, present and edit my own pieces. I have been nominated three times for the Reuters Video Journalist of the Year Award, winning it once for my coverage of the growth of Daesh in Iraq. Hostile environment training: 2011 & 2015. Refresher 2022. Gear: Sony A7siii, Adobe Premiere, professional radio equipment, iphone filming kit.

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• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Audio Storyteller
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• Video Editor - News
• Podcast Producer

I am a senior cameraman with 20 years of diverse experience, mostly in the field. I am specialized in conflict reporting. I have covered the Kosovo war in 2001, 2002 and 2004, the war in Syria and I have covered conflicts in Iraq. To expand my knowledge on conflict reporting I have attended the Hostile Environment Awareness Training. I have also attended the BBC School of Journalism. I have also covered the aftermath of Charlie Hebdo attack, Germanwings crash in France, a terrorist attack in Brussels and the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey. I have worked with several media outlets, such as the oldest commercial TV station in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Hayat TV, public broadcaster Federalna TV and the CNN’s exclusive affiliate for the Adria region – N1 TV.

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• Corporate Videographer

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I completed my BA in METU Industrial Design and MS in METU Media and Cultural Studies and started PhD in Bilkent Graphic Design. During my MA, I started to engage with video and documentaries. I went to Canada with a grant by Sauvé Foundation and worked as a research assistant at University McGill in 2004-2005. I worked as a montage director in İz TV (the first documentary channel in Turkey) and as the Middle East correspondent of American Independent Radio FSRN. I co-founded the first video-activist collective of Turkey -karahaber- with a couple of friends during my BA studies. I continue making videos and documentaries independently. I am a professional editor and DOP.

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• Video Editor - News
• Fixer
• Translator
• Video Editor - Documentary
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I started my profession as a reporter. I worked as a editor and producer at CNNTURK for about 9 years. I worked in different kind of documentaries changing from a big variety such as sports and food culture as the script writer, editor and producer. I worked as the team leader in both the production and broadcasting of different kind of news programs as well as programs on travel, food and history for the NTV. I worked for responsible from creating, producing, editing and managing of all TV programs as a programme manager and program director for TV channels. Now I am working as a executive producer as a freelancer

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I am a dedicated freelance photographer & videographer based in Istanbul who is particularly passionate about sport, events and documantary photography. As a cyclist myself, I’ve been travelling across Turkey and photographing cycling races. I am accredited with all the top race and event organisers including Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey . When covering races, I love shooting from remote locations and providing high-impact images that define the most remarkable moments of the organisation. I am also passionate about illustrating human interest stories, documentaries and in-depth stories on daily life.

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• Video Editor - Documentary
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• Fixer

Mehdi Shabani is an Iranian documentary filmmaker and journalist based in Istanbul. His documentaries, videos and essays have been published and broadcasted across various media including BBC, Deutsche Welle, Voice of America and Aasoo. His work focuses on underreported socio-political issues in the region, often drawing links between Turkey and its eastern neighbors including Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. Mehdi's production company Entemtainment has produced six feature documentaries and dozens of multimedia stories as well as experimental shorts and music videos. His documentaries have mostly been broadcasted on the BBC and been selected in film festivals around the world.

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Hi there, I am a skilled and creative video editor and with five years of experience in all aspects of video production. I am meticulously attentive to both the video and audio aspects of my work and am willing to keep on working at a project until my employer is satisfied with the product. I am just starting out on this website and am keen to establish myself as a trustworthy and freelancer that is easy to talk to. I do most of my work in Adobe Premiere as well as After Effects and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. If you have any questions or suggestions Thanks for reading! Mobile : 0090 x Email : x

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• Social Media Producer
• Senior Editor
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I have been working as a shoot and edit for news and documentary since 1993. I have been more than 70 countries around the world. Some of those; Kosovo war 1999, US elections 2000-2004-2008-2012-2016 , Afghanistan war 2001, 2nd Intifada 2000-2005, Russian elections 2000, Iraq war 2003, Syria war 2013-2023, Arafat interview 2004, Gaddafi interview 2009, financial crisis USA Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton interviews in 2008, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 are some of them… Hundreds of news from different geographies. I have received many international awards, especially the International EMMY Winner 2023 and nomination 2018. Channels I work with; TRT World, Al Jazeera English…

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• Video Editor - News
• Corporate Videographer
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• HD Live Operator
• Drone Operator
• Commercial DP

I'm a freelance video journalist based in Turkey, covering political and social issues including Syria, Kurdish issues, women's rights, domestic and regional politics as well as cultural stories for AFP, Channel NewsAsia, MSNBC and PRI's The World. I script, self-shoot and edit, producing complete news packages and short online documentaries. Prior to this I worked as a newspaper journalist and editor for Fairfax in New Zealand, for several online publications and as Media and Communications Lead at RepRisk in Switzerland. I hold a Master of International Journalism from Cardiff University, United Kingdom.

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I have been an avid experimenter of new forms of visual storytelling for my entire career. My passion is finding new ways to tell stories about the most complex global challenges facing our world today. I’ve worked on films in Hollywood, covered elections and conflicts as a multimedia journalist for the Associated Press, and served as the CEO of a business that produced global stories for social impact. I have always pursued projects that educate, inspire and build bridges across communities and cultures. Stories that call attention to our shared humanity bring us closer together.

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Hello there, My name is Wail Mannad ( it's an Arabic name, a Berber last name, and a very long story how I got them), I fall in love with photography since an early age because my father used to take picture and film everything, I still have some of his gear. In the photo category, I can make product pictures for you( you can either send me your product, buy it if it's available, or use something similar) Videography, I can make travel videos, corporate profile, product reviews, tutorials, DIYs, edit your projects, youtube videos, video clips...

• Product Photographer
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• Post-Production Manager
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• Colorist
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• Fashion Photographer
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I've been working in the media industry for the past 11 years and in particular as a video editor and content creator. It's been always my aim to develop my skills and expertise to match the market needs as it develops by the minute. I've taken many responsibilities starting from being an efficient team member as a content creator, a project manager, team leader and I eventually chose to specialize further in the post production field, where I've worked on 350 different visual projects for social media platforms.

• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Post-Production Manager
• Fixer
• Social Media Producer
• Art Director