My Mother
Mecbure KORKMAZ |
Par
Nezir KORKMAZ
I'd
like you to take a quick look of my life, at a few
photographs from my family and
the populations of my town (albums
I & II). They will help you to get better
acquainted with experiences which have greatly influenced
my work. I was born into a culture were religious
orthodoxy was the standard by which all things were
measured in a society entirely opposed to change and
innovation.My childhood world was far removed from
technological progress, the modernity of the West
and opposed in principle to academic learning. I had
to rely entirely on my own resources in order to build,
alone, my fantastic universe. At 17, I set down the
framework of my life and at 19, as a young student,
I found my style and defined my thesis of
"Man-Nature-Technology" in the "The
Voyagers". My evolution is a mixture of contrastswhich
is also my reason for being.
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My Father Bisar
KORKMAZ.
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I took these photos
on returning to my native mountain village of Hirit
( * Çökekyazı), in the remote eastern reaches of Turkey, after
a twenty-year absence. At my birth into a Kurdish family,
on the 27th of February 1954, conditions in this region
where identical to those found there today.
The lack of infrastructure in the region requires
each clan to see to its own justice.When I was very young,
an unfortunate incident, precipitated by a banal episode
of violence involving my young cousin, R. Korkmaz, constrained
my family, who feared for their lives, to leave our little
village for the village of Kelhok : ( * Bozköy), ten kilometers
from Hirit. We resided there for seven years. These villages,
which formed a triangle with a third, Müşkünüs (* Düzköy), were the universe of my childhood.(ALBUM-I
and ALBUM-II )
(*) : new nom
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me *(1954)
* (Photo repsésentatif)
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