UGUR ORHANOGLU - WATER
UGUR ORHANOGLU
WATER
9 September 2015 - 30 June 2016
Born in Holzheim in May 1969 as the son of Turkish immigrants, Ugur Orhanoglu grew up mostly in Neuss near Düsseldorf. Photography has been a constant thread in his life since 1990. It started when his mother sent him to buy a camera for his father. However, his father didn't even manage to finish a single film roll himself, because Ugur discovered photography for himself and from that moment on, never left the house without the camera. The exhibition, titled 'Water,' is dedicated to one of his favorite subjects, as the title suggests: water. 'I have always been fascinated by the element of water in its clarity and its ability to refract light in a variety of ways,' Ugur says about his passion for water. In everyday life, we encounter water most often when it comes out of the shower head or the tap. Our eye usually only recognizes a jet in a blurry form, decomposed with more or less air bubbles.
If our eyes were able to resolve 1000, 2000, or more images per second instead of 25, we would gain insight into a universe with its infinite variety of colors and shapes.
With the technical possibilities of photography, I have made this extensive spectrum visible to the viewer and was thus able to capture some moments that would otherwise escape our human eye. In doing so, I discovered an infinite richness. A jet of water, which always seems to look the same in our eyes, is subject to constant change, and none of these photographs can be reproduced. Each image is therefore unique and fascinating at the same time.
