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Impressions Of Ebru And Turkishness In The 21st Century, Lisa Dicarlo
Impressions Of Ebru And Turkishness In The 21st Century, Lisa Dicarlo
Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective
On June 18th, 2007, Ebru: Reflections of Cultural Diversity in Turkey began its ten-city tour of Turkey with a debut exhibit in Istanbul, and ended on March 31st, 2009 with the closing of the exhibit in Ankara. The mixed media project, a combination of text, music, visual images, essays and panel discussions, is dominated by Attila Durak's large-format documentary ethnographic photographs of 44 ethnic groups he encountered during seven consecutive summers of fieldwork throughout Turkey. Durak, who is from Turkey and studied photography in the US, began this project with the initial intention of learning about the cultural diversity of …