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Emin Özmen’s Moving Look at Tumultuous Turkey

In his new book Olay, meaning “incident” in Turkish, Magnum photographer Emin Özmen chronicles a turbulent decade in Turkey. The book is a retrospective of his work to date, tirelessly documenting his country in a ceaseless state of turmoil, from a failed coup d’état, through popular uprisings, to natural disasters.

In his essay at the end of Olay, photographer Emin Özmen writes about the first traumatic incident that he remembers. It would also set him on the road to document his country.  "When I was eight years old, on a warm July day in 1993, I was hol...

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