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So I figured out that I needed some skills in photography to get better results. If you look at thousands of photos, you have some understanding of what works and what doesn’t work. In the first ‘rookie year’ I looked at a lot of photos on the internet. What do you think helped you get to where you are-in terms of what makes a good photo? You made a lot of progress in a short period of time. When I look at your photos, considering you’ve only shot for 1.5 years. That is how I started shooting more consciously. I then was invited to private groups where I learned a lot. I then did, and got great feedback from others- I met a lot of good photographers and made honest friends. This project made me wonder- and I wanted to participate. I then somehow found the Street Photography Now Community. You also joined the street photography now community.Īfter researching street photography online- I dove into Flickr. I then bought a compact camera, an Olympus XZ-1 and then a Ricoh GRD 4. I was having a midlife crisis in life then-so I decided street photography would be a hobby that could help me to get over this crisis. I searched it on the internet and I liked what I saw. So when he mentioned “no rules”-it made me interested. One of my family members is a landscape photographer-who said it was like “street photography” (no rules). So one day I took a photo of my son eating some Turkish food-and it was an unorthodox composition. I first started taking photos of my family and buildings during traveling. You have an interesting story on how you discovered street photography.

In my spare times I shoot on the streets. I have been shooting on the streets for a year and a half now. My name is Oguz Ozkan and I have lived in Istanbul for almost 40 years. So Oguz can you introduce yourself to the camera? We sat down for a beer over dinner at a bar, and this is a typed transcription of my interview with him. I was introduced to him by Charlie Kirk– and I was amazed how much progress he has made in only about a year and a half of photographing on the streets. Oguz Ozkan is a street photographer based in Istanbul.

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Photo by Oguz Ozkan from his “Dog walk” series in Istanbul.

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