Festival Program
December 12, 2025, Friday
► Exhibition Openings
16.30 Bursa State Fine Arts Gallery
Cenk Erdoğan
Rana Öztürk
Yiğit Günel
Rıza Erdeğirmenci
17.30 Ertuğrul Bey Square Open Air Gallery
Emin Altan
Open Call Group Exhibition 2
19.00 Tayyare Cultural Center
Durmuş Bahar (Sami Güner Art Gallery)
Forough Alaei (Cemal Nadir Güler Art Gallery)
19.00 UNESCO Square (In Front of the Historical City Hall)
Open Call Group Exhibition 1
19.00 Ressam Şefik Bursalı Art Gallery
Abir Abdullah
Berge Arabian
Bülent Kılıç
Femlens
Laura Chen
20.00 Tayyare Cultural Center
Festival Opening Statements
Mustafa Bozbey (Mayor of Bursa Metropolitan Municipality)
Gülbin Özdamar Akarçay (Co-Curator of the Festival)
Ertuğrul Aksoy (Bursa City Council President)
Tarık Akkurt (BUFSAD President)
Ceyhun İrgil (BUFSAD Honorary Member)
Özcan Yurdalan (Co-Curator of the Festival)
Film Screening
Echoes Through Ages
Volkan Çetin
December 13, 2025, Saturday
► Photographer Talks
11.00 Tayyare Cultural Center
Cenk Erdoğan
Rana Öztürk
12.15 Tayyare Cultural Center
Durmuş Bahar
13.00 – 14.00 Short Break
14.00 Tayyare Cultural Center
Bülent Kılıç
15.00 Tayyare Cultural Center
Berge Arabian
Emin Altan
16.15 Tayyare Cultural Center
Abir Abdullah
18.00 Tayyare Cultural Center
FemLens
Laura Chen
19.15 Tayyare Cultural Center
Forough Alaei
December 14, 2025, Sunday
10.00 – 12.00 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
Collage Workshop
Laura Chen
► Exhibition Opening
10.30 Zindankapı and Contemporary Art Gallery
Ahmet Bilgehan Yıldız
Doğa Korkmaz
Kerem Ozan Bayraktar
Özlem Kanat Örneksoy
Volkan Çetin
► Exhibition Opening
12.00 Atatürk Cultural Center | Merinos Complex (Osmangazi Hall, Foyer Area)
Collectives and Initiatives
Aralık Mag. Independent Photography Collective
Bolis Lusadu
SUFOD
Fotohane Darkroom
Girls to the Front
Görünmeyen Emek Photography Initiative
UFAT
Yaşayan Kadınlar
Yermekân
Children
Children of Kumkadı Neighborhood
People with Disabilities
Bursa City Council – Assembly People with Disabilities
Youth
Necatibey Girls Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School
Yıldırım Borsa Istanbul Girls Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School
14.30 - 16.00 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Portfolio Reviews
Forough Alaei
Abir Abdullah
14.00 Meteor Balat Cultural House, Nilüfer Municipality
► Exhibition Opening
Ali Saltan
Ayla Güvenç İmir
Kemal Aslan
► Photographer Talks
Ali Saltan
Ayla Güvenç İmir
Kemal Aslan
► Exhibition Opening
16.30 – Nâzım Hikmet Cultural Center, Underground Art Gallery | Nilüfer Municipality
A. Nur Türk
Burcu Ertunç
Emre Burhan
Hilal Sevlü
Murat Bergi
Serkan Çolak
Sinan Kılıç
17.00 Nâzım Hikmet Cultural Center, Underground Art Gallery | Nilüfer Municipality
► Photographer
A. Nur Türk
Burcu Ertunç
Emre Burhan
Hilal Sevlü
Murat Bergi
Serkan Çolak
Sinan Kılıç
December 15, 2025, Monday
10:30 – 17:00 – Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Workshop – Day 1
Creating a Photo Zine Together
Arjen Zwart
December 16, 2025, Tuesday
10.30 – 17.00 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Workshop – Day 2
Creating a Photo Zine Together
Arjen Zwart
19.00 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Photo Presentation & Talk
No One Dies at a Gypsy Wedding
Arjen Zwart
December 17, 2025, Wednesday
10.30 – 17.00 – Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Wordshop – Day 3
Creating a Photo Zine Together
Arjen Zwart
19.30 – Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Panel
Photography and BUFSAD in BURSA
Ceyhun İrgil
Fevzi Yapıcı
Güven Aktaş
Nihat Küçük
20:30 – Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
BUFSAD Members’ Photo-presentation
Osman Önder Cup Photo-presentation
December 18, 2025, Thursday
10.00 - 16.00 – Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Workshop – Day 1
Concepts and Images: Building a Circle of Memory
Handan Dayı
17.00 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
Social Memory and Photo Archiving
Ege Kanar
Temel Yılmaz
18:30 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Photo-presentation & Talk
Tatavla of Kurtuluş
Sema Kahraman Vurucu
19.30 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Panel
Feminist Aesthetics and Photography
Elif Dastarlı
Serenay Anık Gök
Şehlem Kaçar
December 19, 2025, Friday
10.00 – 16.00 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Workshop – Day 2
Concepts and Images: Building a Circle of Memory
Handan Dayı
18.00 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► On Photography Publishing
Hüseyin Yılmaz
19.30 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Photo Screening & Talk
Documentary Photography Through Portraits
Ahmet Sel
December 20, 2025, Saturday
10.30 – 17.00 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Workshop
Cyanotype (Blue Print)
Serdar Bilici
12.45 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Talk
Speculative Photography
Handan Dayı
14.00 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Talk
Video Documentary
Altan Bal
15.15 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Panel
The Sociality Nature of Images and Photography
Ezgi Bakçay
Ulaş Bayraktar
16.30 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Talk
Photography as the Act of Crime Scene Investigation Action
Murat Germen
17.30 – 18.00 Short Break
18:00 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Panel
Photography Collections, Curatorship and Archive Management in Art Institutions
Demet Yıldız Dinçer
Orhan Cem Çetin
19:15 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Talk
Memory in Photography: My Personal Political History
Yasin Akgül
December 21, 2025, Sunday
10.00 – 16.00 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Workshop
Understanding Through Photography | Communicating Through Photography
The ABCs of Documentary Photography
Altan Bal
10.30 – 17.30 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Workshop – Day 1
Right to the City
Murat Germen
16.30 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Photo-presentation & Talk
From Root to Fruit: Two School Projects
Alberto Modiano
17.45 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Photo-presentation & Talk
In the Aftermath of the Earthquake
Gürcan Öztürk
19.00 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Panel
Visualizing an Idea Through Video
Ahmet Bilgehan Yıldız
Özlem Kanat Örneksoy
Volkan Çetin
December 22, 2025, Monday
10.30 - 1730 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Workshop – Day 2
Right to the City
Murat Germen
January 10, 2026, Saturday
13.00 – 17.00 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Portfolio Reviews
Gülbin Özdamar Akarçay
Kurtuluş Arı
Özcan Yurdalan
18.00 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Talk
Local Governments and Creating a City’s Visual Memory
Kurtuluş Arı
18.15 Tayyare Cultural Center (Multi-Purpose Event Hall)
► Festival Closing Panel
Gülbin Özdamar Akarçay
Özcan Yurdalan