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Özge Mu is a photographer born and based in Istanbul. Her work revolves around the unseen and the underground of the city.
Özge Mu is a photographer born and based in Istanbul. Her work revolves around the unseen and the underground of the city.
2010 - 2022
The word "Saudades" can be briefly described as a feeling of longing for events, people, and experiences that may or may not have occurred in life. This word often resonates within me and influences my work, resulting in this project.
The entire series was created using 35mm films, capturing moments when I felt this emotion. The photographs in this series were taken in the search for what I long for and how I might reach it. The desire to touch or connect is represented by my hand entering the frame. The blurriness of my hand symbolizes the fact that I can neither fully exist in the moment I experienced nor establish the connection I seek as my hand cannot reach.
The Saudades project is an endeavor to convey my mood, which is stuck between the pleasure derived from this unavoidable - and arguably questionable - existential melancholy and state of seeking. By confronting these realities through the viewfinder, I have managed to unload the heavy burden within me.