İstanbul, Türkiye
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Request QuoteÖzge 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.
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Uighur Muslims leave their homes in China where they face mass detention, heavy surveillance and even alleged torture. Hatice Abudurexiti and her daughter have found refuge and are rebuilding their lives in Istanbul, Turkey.
The Halki Seminary in Heybeliada, Istanbul, was first established in 1844, and was one of the top institutions for theological education in the Greek Orthodox world. The Greek Orthodox seminary trained future parish leaders until 1971, when the Turkish authorities forcibly shuttered the monastery for almost 50 years. Today, under the leadership of chaplain Father Ioann, the monastery is preparing
When the war came to Syria, even families who opposed it felt they had to marry off their teenage daughters for their protection. Now, as refugees, they face the same dilemma. In neighboring countries like Turkey young girls are becoming single mothers amid an ignored child marriage epidemic.The industrial city of Kayseri in the Anatolian region of Turkey is home to about 60,000 Syrian refugees.
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