Murat Germen

Murat Germen (1965, Istanbul) received a Masters in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1992, where he also studied at Harvard University. Prior to this, he received a BA in city planning at the Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey. Soon after entering architectural practice, however, Germen turned to photography, a passion since childhood, focusing his camera (literally and figuratively) on the structures of buildings and cities and exploring, as he has stated, “the different traces left by various people and slices of time [that] co-exist as layers in cities that have a particular past.” His work addresses such issues as personal legacy, personal/collective memory conflicts, sustainability, and the dynamics of custody and betrayal. Photographs by the artist are included in the collections of several museums, including Istanbul Modern, Museum Elgiz (Istanbul), the Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń (Poland), and Benetton Foundation’s Imago Mundi, and have been featured in exhibitions in the USA, Germany, UK, Australia, France, China, Portugal, Japan, and more.