Berlin · Fine Art Photography

Burak Bulut Yıldırım

For more than two decades, I have photographed the body through light, time, and material.

My work returns to the moment a body begins to dissolve into what surrounds it, whether a room, a landscape, light, or movement, and to the inner states it carries: emptiness, melancholy, desire.

The image begins in front of the camera: with a body, a surface, a source of light, and the time required for them to meet. Digital tools belong to the final stage; the photograph comes from a physical encounter.

Projects

Chimera — distorted form through damaged mirror

Chimera

Bent mirrors multiply, fracture, and reform the body. Includes sub-series Dysmorphia.
UnNude — sculptural figure study

UnNude

The body read as architecture: skin as line, fold as volume.
Lucida — body under ultraviolet light

Lucida

Under ultraviolet light, the body becomes its own source of light.
Ecotone — figure among foliage by water

Ecotone

The body returning to nature, until skin and landscape become one. Includes sub-series Only You Are Close, When Everything Is Far Away.
Antemortem — figure in dim interior

Antemortem

Between life and death: bodies still present, already leaving.
Melancholia — figure leaning on piano

Melancholia

The weight of melancholy, carried in a bowed head and a leaning body.
Niche — figure on red velvet sofa

Niche

The emptiness of being alone in a room, and a body dissolving into it.
Motus — figure captured in motion

Motus

Movement and time turned into space, with the body dissolving inside it. Includes sub-series In Haste and Stills.
Elsewhere — figure in pastel alley

Elsewhere

An unclothed body in public space, and what it means simply to exist there.
In Haste — ballet dancer in urban architecture

In Haste

A Motus sub-series: ballerinas dancing for a moment on Istanbul's streets, and the people who watch.
Crave — silhouetted embracing figures in smoke

Crave

Desire as appetite: heat, touch, taste, and a gaze that looks back.
Stills — dancers in improvisational response to objects

Stills

A Motus sub-series: dancers answering photographs of everyday objects with their bodies.

Curatorial Projects

Group exhibitions and collective projects developed alongside the personal practice, bringing Istanbul-based photographers onto international platforms.

The Nudes of Istanbul exhibition
Upcoming · July 2026

The Nudes of Istanbul

Die Akt Galerie, Berlin. 14 photographers from Istanbul. Sole curator.
LandsNude exhibition
2015

LandsNude

Artcore Gallery, Thessaloniki. 8 photographers. Curator & participant.
  • Berlin-based photographer and curator, working since 2005
  • Sony Europe Imaging Ambassador, 2018–2026
  • Member, German Portrait Photography Society (BPP)
  • Holder, International Artist Card, IGBK
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