Yusuf Sevinçli is a Turkish photographer born in 1980 in Zonguldak. He graduated in Communication Studies from Marmara University in 2003 and the following year joined a documentary photography masterclass in Sweden.
Familiar with existential drift and a devotee of high-contrast blacks, Sevinçli is one of those alchemical artists who, in every place he visits, engage in strange operations of transfiguration. He does not premeditate his images; he frames instinctively and shifts the lines. He is both witness and participant, keeping one foot inside the image and one outside. He wavers with the wind, stumbles with drunks, and pulses with beauty queens. He is far more than a photographer, as his images seem to release sounds and scents, as though his sensitive presence in the world were generating new forms of synaesthesia.
Several series, including Good Dog, have been widely exhibited in solo and group shows in Turkey, across Europe, and internationally (Moscow Photo Month, Thessaloniki Photobiennale, Fotografia Europea Festival in Reggio Emilia, Noorderlicht Photography Festival in the Netherlands, FotoFreo in Australia, among others). He currently lives and works in Istanbul. He has also been commissioned for several “carte blanche” projects by cities such as Marseille, Vichy, and more recently Deauville for the Planche(s) Contact Festival.