I have been photographing the landscape in Turkey for around 25 years with a 4x5” format camera.

My photographs are best defined as an attempt to align the formal aesthetic of nature with the correct light and to create a sense of calm and serenity using B&W techniques. Moments where the harmony of light coincides with the spirit are rare. And it is these moments that I strive to capture in my photography. My sole aim when taking photographs is to maximise their visual and descriptive quality; in other words, to achieve photographic perfection. What I hope is that my photographs recreate these magic moments for the viewer, allowing a glimpse and appreciation of the extraordinary in what appears to be completely ordinary.

Over that time I have always endeavoured to obtain the best quality prints using B&W techniques. I have also mastered a number of other techniques, notably colour, B&W silver gelatin and Platinum & Palladium (Pt/Pd) printing techniques.

In May 2004, I set up this website, motivated by the opportunity to share my photographic work.

My primary concern in the creation of every photograph is to obtain the highest-quality, most complete result. Whether during the actual taking or at the printing stage, I channel first my passion then my meticulous attention to detail into each photograph. My aim each time is to produce a photograph of archival standard as much through the elements that make it a whole as through subsequent technical processes and procedures. All the photographs exhibited on this website were taken with a 4x5” camera, which facilitates the absolute clarity and definition you see. They were printed using traditional wet darkroom methods and techniques.

The photographs here on my website are images from Turkey’s Lake District, the Kackar Mountains, the Eastern Taurus range, Antalya, Denizli, Afyon, Konya, Isparta, the Kaz Mountains and Eastern Anatolia. What attracts me most from a visual point of view is the natural beauty of rivers and streams; powerfully cascading waterfalls; the fragile, sensitive quality of the forest interior; and the abiding splendour of awesome mountains and their summits.

I have been fastidious in my choice of photographs for the website. My objective was to make a selection that most articulately expressed my approach to the photographic process, the wish to communicate images in my mind and imagination and to share moments. And I sense that I have probably succeeded in this.

I hope very much that you will enjoy my photographs…

Bulent Ozgoren

Istanbul, Turkey