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.

• 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