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Ilker Gurer

Ilker Gurer

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Profession: PhotoJournalist-Fixer
Status: Photojorunalist-Fixer
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Home base: Istanbul, Turkey
URL: http://www.ilkergurer.com/
URL: http://www.photoshelter.com/c/ilkergurer
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Languages spoken: English-Turkish
Organization: ZUMA Press
MSN Messenger: ilker_gurer@hotmail.com
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Google Talk: unselfishdreams@gmail.com
Mobile phone: 0090 537 453 0693
Work phone 0090 537 453 0693
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Blood type: O+
Last login: 4 days ago
Member since: 09 Jan 2006 11:01

About

Ilker began his passion for photography in the summer of 2004 and has been freelancing ever since for various publications in news and documentary. With his work Ilker attempts to examine urban transformation and human strength when faced with hardship.

In 2006, Ilker was nominated for the World Press master class. Then in January 2007 joined World Picture News as a news and assignment photographer. Ilker has also worked as a photo editor for a Turkish daily newspaper and produced four personal projects to date. In October 2009, Ilker joined Zuma Press as a contract photographer.

Other projects include assisting British photographer Olivia Arthur in 2006 for her project in Istanbul. And in 2007, assisting photographer Rena Effendi document the Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan pipeline project in Turkey. Ilker has also assisted broadcast journalist Jody Sabral on a short film called Banished that was shot in the Crimea in the role of assistant-producer. The film portrayed the lives and hardships Crimean Tartars face as they return to their homeland after years of exile – Banished was aired on the investigative People and Power programme part of Aljazeera English documentary programming.

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Ilker Gurer
Email: unselfishdreams@gmail.com
Istanbul mobile: +90 537 453 0693

Represented by ZUMA PRESS

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Ilker Gurer. Krakow Smithsonian, pp. page65. [none], Sep 1 2009.
Ilker Gurer. "Return Of the Tartars" Digital Journalist, pp. issue 137. [none], Mar 8 2009.
Ilker Gurer. "Istanbul tur och retur" Sydsvenskan, [none], Feb 11 2009.
Ilker Gurer. Bottleneck at The Bosphorus Financial Times, pp. "pp-2". [none], Jan 5 2008.
Ilker Gurer. Turkey Islamic Fashion Liberation, [none], Oct 12 2007.
Ilker Gurer. Turkey Islamic Fashion in Istanbul Elle, [none], Sep 25 2007.
Ilker Gurer. "Headscarves Issue" Le Figaro, pp. page 5. [none], Sep 20 2007.
Ilker Gurer. "Turkey s Brothels Produce Election Candidates" Gazeta Wyborcza, [none], Aug 6 2007.
Ilker Gurer. My Sweet Home Financial Times, [none], Jun 30 2007.
Ilker Gurer. "Poyrazkoy" copy, pp. Gate. [none], May 20 2007.

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