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Double Portrait by Cemre Yeşil Gönenli
Double Portrait was an International Photo Book Award finalist at FELIFA - Festival de Libros de Fotos de Autor 2021 and was shortlisted in the PHotoESPAÑA 2021 Awards for the ‘Award for Best Photography Book of the Year’ in the international category.
A dance
A double dance
Words with photographs
Mothers with children
A nonsensical dictionary about the (m)other
not to read,
but to feel
not to forget,
but to live.
Double Portrait is a reverie in the form of images and words. A communication of an artistic calling through photography and an archive of a personal journey of joy and sorrow that comes with love and birth; fear of loss, identity, childhood, motherhood, memory; a questioning of portrait traditions and the psychological aspect of photography. Double Portrait is about remembering what it means to be held, and experiencing what it means to hold regardless of cultural norms related to gender. A process which records 9 years of research into a real-time system of observation on the mother-child relationship through different lenses.
Double Portrait is a cartography towards the complex relationship between mother-child and the unfolding process of motherhood. It is also a visual response to the unimaginable death of everyone's mother. It speaks of something we all know about emotionally, but can't articulate all that easily. We know it when we see it. We know it when we feel it. We know it when it is absent. We carry it when we have been held and we carry it when we have not been held.
Photographs & Text: Cemre Yeşil
Visual Editor: Gonzalo Golpe
Text Editor: Federica Chiocchetti, The Photocaptionist
Graphic Design: Marina Meyer
English-Turkish Translation: Orhan Cem Çetin
Production Assistant: Çağla Demirbaş
18x24 cm
Hardcover, 264 pages
Embroidered letters on back cover
ISBN 978-605-81216-2-1
2021, Printed in Turkey
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Double Portrait, 2021 In the international category of the PHotoESPAÑA Awards Nominated for ‘Best Photo Book of the Year’ award.
A dance
A dance for two
Words with photographs
A dance mothers perform with their children.
A ridiculous visual dictionary, about the mother,
about the other.
Not to read, but to feel
To remember,
To live.
Double Portrait, an imagination embodied in images and words. Love and the joy and sorrow that come with birth; The fear of loss, identity, childhood, motherhood, memory; an archive of a personal journey that questions the portrait tradition and the psychological aspects of photography. The book invites us to search for and remember the meaning of hugging and being hugged, regardless of gender-related social norms. Double Portrait is a record of a 9-year research process in which the mother-child relationship is transformed into a real-time observation system through different lenses. Double Portrait is an atlas of the complexity and layering of the mother-child relationship. A visual response to the day everyone lost or will lose their mother, a day they don't want to remember or even imagine. It's about feelings we are all emotionally familiar with but can't easily describe; feelings we understand when we have them, comprehend when we feel them, and notice when they are gone. It's a state of being that we carry towards someone when they hold us, and we still carry towards them when they don't hold us.
Photo & Text: Cemre Yeşil
Visual Editor: Gonzalo Golpe
English-Turkish Translation: Orhan Cem Çetin
Production Assistant: Çağla Demirbaş
18x24 cm
Hardcover, 264 pages
Embroidered letters on the back cover
ISBN 978-605-81216-2-1
2021, Istanbul
