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Olgaç Bozalp: “Returning to Those Memories Finally Helped Me Find My Voice” – The Turkish Photographer on Home, Identity and Belonging

Olgaç Bozalp discusses growing up disconnected in Konya, discovering photography through acting, and rejecting the “hybrid” identity label. He reflects on photographing his father, diaspora communities, and Islamic countries where using his middle name “Mustafa” brought unexpected belonging. He explores fashion versus art, diversity’s uneven progress, and his patient, relational approach to portraiture.

Thana Faroq: “A Photograph Is Never Innocent” – On Migration, Memory and What Images Cannot Hold

In this interview, photographer Thana Faroq discusses her Yemeni roots, unconventional academic path blending politics with photography, and acclaimed book ‘I Don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows’. She reflects on exile, identity, and long-term relationships with subjects in asylum centers, her use of text as image, mentorship of women photographers, and her debut film ‘Imagine Me Like a Country of Love’.

Emin Ozmen: Documenting Turkey’s Unfinished History Through Photography

From the trauma of the 1993 Sivas massacre to documenting wars, displacement and political upheaval across Turkey and the Middle East, Magnum photographer Emin Özmen reflects on memory, conflict, hope and the responsibility of bearing witness. A deeply personal conversation about photography as history, evidence and an enduring act of conscience.

Ed Kashi: Four Decades of Witnessing Humanity Through Photography

For more than four decades, Ed Kashi has documented some of the world’s defining human, environmental and social crises through photography and film. In this conversation with Emaho, the acclaimed National Geographic photographer reflects on visual storytelling, long-form documentary practice, climate change, conflict, multimedia journalism, and why bearing witness remains one of photography’s most enduring responsibilities.

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