Çerkes Karadağ, the world-renowned photographer, captured Izmir and its daily life from an "artistic perspective" for Folkart Gallery on the 100^th anniversary of the liberation of Izmir. Çerkes Karadağ's photography exhibition titled "The 100's of Izmir" will be open to visitors at Folkart Gallery between October 8^th and December 18^th, 2022.

Folkart Gallery opens the 2022-2023 exhibition season on the 100^th anniversary of the liberation of Izmir with the photographs of Izmir by Çerkes Karadağ, the world-renowned photographer. "We wanted to bring art lovers together with a special project for the 100^th anniversary of the liberation of beautiful Izmir," said Folkart Chairman Mesut Sancak and added "Photography artist Çerkes Karadağ immortalized Izmir on the 100^th anniversary of its liberation and left a meaningful note in history. As Folkart Gallery, we have realized a documentary project that will carry the present of the city to the future. I congratulate all those who contributed."  

MEETING ON OCTOBER 8^TH 

Folkart Gallery is holding a special exhibition for the 100^th anniversary of the liberation of Izmir from enemy occupation. The exhibition titled "The 100 of Izmir", consisting of Izmir photographs by world-renowned photographer Çerkes Karadağ, will be opened to Izmir residents and all art lovers on October 8^th, 2022. The exhibition will include 100 works selected among 15 thousand photographs shot by Çerkes Karadağ during his months-long work.

All the photographs in the exhibition, whose Project Director is Fahri Özdemir, General Coordinator of Folkart Gallery, were shot in 2022, the 100^th anniversary of the liberation of Izmir. Also, A special album of 300 pages in Turkish and English was prepared for the exhibition. In addition to Karadağ's photographs, the album also includes articles by journalist-writer Doğan Hızlan, art critic Evrim Altuğ, poet-writer Ahmet Telli, poet-writer Hüseyin Ferhad, and poet-writer Ünal Ersözlü, as well as some poems written for İzmir by famous poets.