Namus

• Prize
• Photographer
  Caglar Gezer, Switzerland

Namus is the Arabic word of a concept of an ethical category. A virtue, in Middle Eastern patriarchal character which means “fidelity to the moral rules in a society”. It represents a gender-specific category of relations within a family described in terms of honour, respectability, and modesty.

This series is part of a project consisting of six portraits.

December 2013, Geneva.

Caglar Gezer was born in Istanbul. As a non-professional self -taught photographer, his humanistic approach to life is reflected in his black and white photographs, providing an unparalleled aesthetic viewpoint. The goal of his each project is to develop a body of image which allows him to transfer a visual knowledge of a specific human social event to the viewer.

Awards AWARDS

Namus
2014 - Paris PX3 Prix de la Photographie, First Prize (Press Category)
2014 - Paris PX3 Prix de la Photographie, First Prize (Portraiture/Culture Category)
2014 - Paris PX3 Prix de la Photographie, First Prize (Portraiture/Other Category)
2014 - Paris PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Second Prize (Fine Art/People Category)
2014 - Paris PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Third Prize (Fine Art/Other Category)

Trauma
2014 - Paris PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Third Prize (Portraiture/Family)
2014 - Paris PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Honorable Mention (Press/People/Personality)

Dissolution
2014 - Paris PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Honorable Mention (Fine Art/Abstract)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014, TurcArt, Heritage Gallery, Geneva - Switzerland