Kemal Nuraydın

Kemal Nuraydın was born in Antakya (Antioch) in 1970. When he studied law at Marmara University, Nuraydın began to have an interest in photography and worked on it. In 1993, he started working as a photojournalist at Atlas Magazine. His photographs and articles have appeared in many international magazines and newspapers in Japan, Germany, USA, Greece, Israel, Hungary, Poland, Sweden and Turkey including some local editions of National Geographic Magazine, Geo, Cosmopolitan, Readers’ Digest, Die Zeit and Atlas Magazine. He has had many solo exhibitions, and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad including the USA, France and Greece. Nuraydın served as an adviser on the TRT documentary program for children “Düş Peşime”. He has also served as a jury member in many different photographic competitions. Since 2001, Nuraydın has been working as the deputy editor of the Turkish edition of National Geographic Magazine. Although his main role is visual, including layout, design and photography, he is also responsible for local material and all kind of supplements as Project Coordinator. Nuraydın was the editor of the National Geographic′s Interactive Photography School in Turkish (4 CD′s), A Digital Photography School (2 CD′s) and many other supplements about photography.

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