Your strongest memory from your time at Speos?
So actually when I came to Speos, I was on a
I loved the international atmosphere
graduated, I went back to Istanbul and started
and there was one thing that was
training again and in 2017 I became the Turkish
common was the love for photography.
champion in snowboarding. My biggest dream
We are all so young All of us would go
was to compete at the Winter Olympics and I
out to the cafes and the bars with our
tried to qualify for the 2010 Vancouver games
cameras clicking photographs all the
but I failed as my preparation wasn’t enough
time, of the each other, of a candle
but I got an offer to go as a photographer to
light etc. we were all obsessed with
the same games that I wanted to qualify as an
being in Paris and obsessed with
athlete. I took it up and was the photographer
photography. I am very thankful to
at the snowboard event and I had my skis on,
have met all those friends, share
and once the race was over I skied down the
images and life, it was a great
same slope that the race had happened with all
experience.
my equipment and in a way I got my
How did you decide to become a photographer?
redemption. Nobody was filming me but it was
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break from my sports career. Once I
very emotional.