Cemre Yeşil Gönenli, from the series Double Portrait, 2021
Cemre Yeşil Gönenli, from the series Double Portrait, 2021
Double Portrait is a manifestation of togetherness, while paradoxically creating a space to think and cope with the (m)other’s absence.
Cemre Yeşil Gönenli is a Turkish photographer living in Istanbul. Her BA is in photography and she holds an MA in visual arts from Sabanci University. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally, including in The Guardian, Colors (magazine), International Center of Photography, British Journal of Photography, La Fábrica, Istanbul Modern Museum, and SALT Beyoğlu (Istanbul).
Yeşil Gönenli was nominated for the FOAM Paul Huf Award, ING Unseen Talent Award, and Lead Award. She was cited in the British Journal of Photography’s “Ones to Watch” issue. Her book, For Birds’ Sake (in collaboration with Maria Sturm) was a finalist for the PHE OjodePez Award for Human Values and Renaissance Photography Prize, Les Rencontres d'Arles Prix du Livre d'Auteur, and the Prix Levallois. A selection from her An/other series is in Istanbul Modern Museum’s photography collection. Other publications include “OCC Retrospective” (Orta Format magazine 2014), The House We Used to Call Home (2014), Pietra (2016), Becoming: Cure as Care (2018), Hayal & Hakikat (Gost Books & FiLBooks, 2020). Her forthcoming book Double Portrait will be published in spring 2021, and is a continuation of her former PhD research project.
Currently Yeşil Gönenli lectures on photography at Falmouth University and Istanbul Bilgi University. She is the founder of FILBooks, a space dedicated to photo books, artist talks and workshops – which, in 2017, also became a publishing house.