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Murat Yazar is a Kurdish documentary photographer born in Urfa City in Türkiye. Since 2007, he has been producing long-term visual stories focusing on memory, migration, borders, and social transformation. His work has taken shape across a wide geography extending from Türkiye to the Caucasus, and from the Middle East to the Balkans and Europe.

As part of the National Geographic-supported Out of Eden Walk project, he documented an approximately 1,200-kilometer route on foot from Urfa to Georgia. Since 2017, he has been living and working in Italy.

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His projects and visual research have been supported by institutions including the Pulitzer Center, ISMEO, University of Rochester, and Cornell University.

Yazar has received several international awards, including the Banff Mountain Photo Essay Grand Prize, the W. Eugene Smith Grant, and the RPBB Grand Experts Award.

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Publications Include: 

• National Geographic Magazine / • Now Magazine, Canada / • IZ Magazine, Turkey / • Le Courrier, Swiss / • The New York Times, US / • Artribune magazine, Italy / • Travel Globe Magazine, Italy / • Saiten Magazine, Swissn/ • Yale 360

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Exhibitions:

We-Are refugees: 

• Can Yüce Culture and Art Festival, Datça-Türkiye in 2024

• BIS: Biennale in Italy in 2024

• BarrObjektif Festival, France in 2015 / • Centre Cívic Can Basté, Spain in 2014

 

 Ararat-After The Flood: 

•  Visa pour l'Image Perpignan, France in 2022 (screening show)

•  Zoom Photo Festival, Canada in 2023

•  Castelnuovo di Porto foto festival in Italy in 2024

 

Shadows of Kurdistan - A photographic research of a cultural identity; 

• Corto Dorico Film Festival, Italy in 2019

• Babel Film Festival, Italy in 2019 

• Zoom Photo Festival Saguenay, Canada in 2018 

• Paris Kurdish İnstitute, France in 2021

• Diversify Photo - Photovile, New York in USA in 2024

• Festival Fotografico Europeo / Milano

 

Saturday Mothers:

Cegerxwin Cultural Center, Diyarbakir in 2012

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A walk through Anatolia: 

•  BarrObjektif Festival, France in 2016 in 

 

Face of Mesopotamia;

•  Sprachenatelier Berlin, Germany in 2011

 

 

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