I am mightily proud to that
George Georgiou will be one of six photographers selected for MOMA's annual
New Photography exhibition.
George Georgiou (British, born 1961) began
working as a freelance photographer after receiving a BA in photography
from the Polytechnic College of Central London. He has photographed
extensively in Eastern Europe and Turkey, spending most of the past five
years in Istanbul. His series Fault Lines, made on his travels through
Turkey, examines the country’s present-day struggle to maintain its
traditions and natural landscape in the face of change and development.
His pictures focus on everyday life but seek, he says, to “address and
question the concept of East and West and the process of modernization,
urbanization, and national identity that is happening in Turkey against a
rising tide of nationalism and religion.” With its recent contentious
elections and ongoing bid to join the European Union, Turkey is at a
political and social crossroads. Georgiou follows this former imperial
power in its search for a twenty-first-century identity.
Also showing are
Moyra Davey, Deana Lawson, Doug Rickard, Viviane Sassen, Zhang Dali
