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Artist	Kerem Pakdemir
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Age	32 years old
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Artlimited.net gave me a great deal of motivation on my photography, and using that motivation I will try to summarize and remember my journey through still images;

I started taking interest in photopgraphy as I moved to Ankara to study in METU. The student photography club (AFT) was the first place that I started to visit weekly. I still remember the feeling of that small room which was in a temporary small, rather independent part of the campus – and the discussions on photography. The approach was unique and rather insightful compared to the mechanic teachings of amateur courses.
Then I spent couple of my elective course credits which were not accepted by my department; courses given by Ms. Jale Erzen and Mr. Hasan Saltık. Darkroom was the only way, and we’d wash our films, the chemicals, the dark hours... I can still smell the joy of it. Those courses were also a great deal of improvement in how I saw photography and everything.

So let’s say up to here there are 2 chapters summarized;

1. The beginnings – out of the blue.

2. The Darkroom years – in parallel to courses and free study.
I think then a downfall began, which was caused by my monkey business apetite and also the reading;

3. Reading Phase – I think a lot of the people here has experienced something similar; the more you start reading on it, the more you conceptualize, the more you get closer to theory, the less what you actually photograph has an appeal to you. The readings were mostly critical theory as well as Roland Barthes, Susann Sontag, Vilem Flusser and alikes...

And after that I have to include GISAM in METU and the valuable people there, most influential Ulus Baker, my interest was broadened by moving images and at that moment I had little interest in taking pictures anymore.

4. Digital chops off digits – Yes, as I climbed to the Canon EOS1N, already my interest was in a downfall and having couple of years pass, I was sitting with the previous best thing in its case, and the digitals that could go near was costing a lot of zeros with a non-zero to the left. So, I left it go away.

5. Come down, come down – Start on digital happened with a 40D which I am still using, and with the thrust of the gadget I started taking pictures once more, also trying to understand the logic of photoshop.

However, until recently, I noticed that majority of the later stuff I did was made during my trips, which also shows that photography was still not back for me, I only concentrated on it out of my daily routine, when I was traveling and I noticed I was slowly but surely being pulled back in again.

6. Art Limited gives a hand – Really, the phase I am in right now is quite pleasant. I am going through my work from earlier trips and years, categorizing, analyzing and discovering what I want to do with photography. So I can’t thank enough to this site for the motivation I got from it and that I could not find inside.