Murat Yazar - Photographs.

Murat Yazar (born 1978, near Şanlıurfa, Eastern Turkey) is a Kurdish freelance photographer. He studied tourism at Harran University before training in photography in Istanbul in 2006. Since 2008 he has worked independently, focusing on long-term projects across Kurdistan, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, the Middle East, and Europe. In 2014 he participated in Paul Salopek’s Out of Eden Walk, covering roughly 1,200 kilometres across Turkey and into Georgia. Since 2017 he has been based in Rome, Italy.

His major project Shadows of Kurdistan: A Photographic Research of a Cultural Identity was published in 2020 by Scienze e Lettere. The series has been exhibited in multiple countries and has won international recognition, including the MonoVisions Black & White People Series of the Year (2019), the PX3 Paris Silver Prize for Book/Documentary (2020), the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Photo Essay Competition (2020), a shortlist at the Sony World Photography Awards (2020), and an Honourable Mention at the Siena International Photo Award (2020).

Yazar’s photographs have been published in National Geographic, The New York Times, IZ Magazine, Le Courrier, Now Magazine, Artribune, Travel Globe Magazine, and Saiten Magazine. In 2024, he received both a Pulitzer Center grant for Lost Paradise: Tigris and Euphrates and the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, supporting his continued work on environmental and cultural transformations in the Tigris–Euphrates basin.

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