Turkish students set up photo exhibit on Armenian border


The photography exhibition "Sınırda" (On the Border), featuring a total of 49 black and white photographs by three young photographers from Koç University's Photography Club (KUSHOT), will be on display at Istanbul Archeology Museum's Assos Hall until March 20.Students Hüseyin Karabacak, Orhun Şener and Çağatay Gürbay, whose paths crossed "on the border," explore the borders of life in the eastern part of Turkey, as well as people and their voices, faces and feelings from the eastern province of Kars to Armenia's Yerevan and Gyumri provinces. Curated by academician Laleper Aytek of Koç University, the exhibition reveals the photographers' journey to the unknown. "On the Border" displays various layers in the society, which were formed as an expression of collective memory.Graduating from Koç University's Department of Archeology and Art History in 2015, Hüseyin Karabacak has been professionally involved in photography for the last seven years. Orhun Şener, currently a fourth year student at the Department of Archeology and Art History at Koç University, has been interested in photography for four years. Çağatay Gürbay is a senior year student at Koç University's Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and has been professionally interested in photography since 2010.