Interview with Serkan Sedele and Fehmi Sedele on Photography

Serkan Sedele, who has been a professional photographer since the age of 13, has accomplished many successful works from advertisements for the most difficult products to photograph, to fashion catalogs , from Deniz Akkaya 's painted mud to THY's advertisement with Kevin Costner, and his father, born in 1945, is an experienced photographer of Anatolian photography. its name is a father-son interview with Fehmi Sedele, an aerial photographer with the most flight time in Turkey...

Interview with Fehmi SEDELE

* You are a famous photographer family in Turkey. Can you talk a little bit about this process that has passed from generation to generation?

I started this business by working in the studio of my uncle, who is a photographer, during the summer holidays. It was my first camera in secondary school and I started to earn money by taking pictures in schools at this age, and this continued throughout my school life. Since my father was a journalist, we opened a studio, but taking pictures from five meters in the studio didn't work for me, so I ran away and started taking pictures outside. I became Nurettin Erkılıç's assistant and worked together in the dark room of Meydan Lourusse. I worked with Necmettin Kulakçı. I shot the Atlas of Turkey with Hakkı Devrim and Ziya Aras. Later, I had a place of my own in Sultanahmet, and Serkan started helping me here during the summers. Father - son have been working for 22 years.

You know, photography schools have started to open in recent years. From the very beginning of this process, I could not respond to the offers of me to be an academician, but later on, I discovered the sublime side of this job and started to teach advertising courses at Akademi Istanbul and Yeditepe University.

* What is the most important thing in your life while doing your job?

Discipline, discipline, discipline... Discipline is very important in photography and it starts with the photographer himself.

* You are a successful photographer, do you have an idol that you take as an example?

All photographers are my friend but I never thought of it as an idol. Photography is both my job and my hobby. I left Elazig and found myself among my friends and photography.

* What factors are important for a photo to be good; eye, frame, light; technical; photoshop; digital skills...

The most important is light. Not with the camera, but with the eyes and the heart. Our job is the goal, not the argument. A photographer learns something in every job. Space is also very important in photography. We took a lot of hotel, boutique hotel photos. Different designs make people feel good. The place reflects the character. A space is created with either three or thirteen pieces.

* Which project or job did you enjoy working in the most?

I have shot nearly thirty album covers. Finally, I shot the album cover of Ferdi Özbegen. They were fun projects.

* How did you get into factory photography or aerial photography?

When I had to leave military high school, I gave up on my dream of being a pilot. My passion for flying brought me here. I have been photographing from the air for thirty years.

* Have you ever filmed in Gaziantep?

At the same time, I photographed the Tuğcan Hotel of my relative Nazan Tuğsuz from the air. I also photographed the cement factory.

* What are your future goals?

My wish is to photograph Turkey from the air and make a documentary about it. I also want to open a photography school.

* An unforgettable moment?

Let me tell you about another event. When we were children, foreign photographers would come to Elazig, take pictures, and we would follow them with curious eyes. The same thing happened to me when I went to Turkmenistan to take pictures and I went back to the old days.

* Is there a project in the field of architecture or design that has surprised you in recent years? If yes, in what way did it surprise you?

I photographed Eren Talu's hotel - house project in Bodrum. And it was truly a magnificent design made up of white and a mirror.

* What are your preferences and suggestions for the decoration of your home?

I have always preferred a classic and comfortable style in the decoration of my house. In addition, my advice to our girls who are the readership of your magazine and who will set up a new home is to choose decoration alternatives that will create a warm family atmosphere.

* What kind of house would you like to live in?

In fact, my biggest dream, which I could not realize due to lack of time and the intensity of my work, would like to live in a stone house in the Aegean.

* What is the most important place and furniture in your home?

The showcase with my rosary and ring collection.

Interview with Serkan SEDELE

* Could you tell us a little about your photography adventure from generation to generation?

I started as an assistant to my father at the age of 14. Before that, I started working with my father during the summer holidays. I got my first camera at the age of eight, I got an award from the photography contest I participated in at the age of eleven, I started making money from this business at the age of fifteen and I have been continuing as a full professional since I was in my twenties.

* What is most important to you while doing your job? The most important element in the photo?

Behind the scenes is important, technique is important. For photography to be good, the eyes of the heart must be open.

* Your idol that you take as an example?

As with any business, photography has a lot to learn. I don't have a single idol.

* What are your future goals?

Academic career and educating people. I've been working on this for about a year.

* As one of Turkey's leading fashion photographers, what are your views on fashion and design?

Fashion is a powerful phenomenon, very variable. I believe that fashion photographers have a very important place in following this variability with such interest. As a fashion photographer, I can capture very different images with the right designs and companies in the market. These photographs contribute to fashion's own visual richness.

* As a fashion photographer, what do you think about Dreamon Wedding Dress , for which you have taken catalog photos for years?

For me, DreamON Wedding Dress is in the category of companies that continue to do their job with the right designs that I mentioned earlier. In 2005, when we started working, I was surprised that there was a company from Gaziantep, outside of Istanbul, that took such a serious place in bridal fashion . In short, I find the wedding dress designs and the firm's stance positive. You can reach the right image in photography only with the right designs. The right image in photography gives me pleasure.

* What are your preferences in the decoration of your home or office?

Simple and minimal but my home is art deco style. My office is minimal, actually I like to combine minimal and antiques in my home. I have a great interest in antiques. I collect Ottoman - Islamic works.

* The most important place in your home, the item?

My chair, I like sitting tall...

* Item that will never enter your home?

Artificial Flower