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Laleper Aytek was born in Istanbul in 1960. She graduated from the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Administrative Sciences at Bosphorus University in 1985. In 1986, she went to Oslo to pursue her Master′s degree in Social Economics at University of Oslo. Since 1987, she has held 12 solo exhibitions and participated in over 22 national and international group exhibitions. In 1991, Aytek founded her own studio and started working as a free-lance advertising photographer. In 1994, she held her first solo exhibiton in Turkey “Photography Questions the Past” at the Women’s Library in Istanbul, where she worked from 1991 to 1996 as a voluteer responsible for cultural and publication activities. In 1991-98, Aytek worked as the director of photography in the Economic and Social History Foundation of Turkey and Iletisim Publications. In 1998, she worked as the director of photography at Metro Cash&Carry’s digital photo studios establishment. She continues to work as the Advertising and Marketing Manager in the same company.
From 2002 to 2007, Aytek wrote articles on photography in the bimonthly published Geniş Açı photo magazine. In 2004, she wrote about her experience of moving from Istanbul to a distant shore in the book “Kıyılara Kaçan Kadınlar” (Voluntary Exiles To The Sea Shore). In 2005, she published the book gathering her thoughts on photography “Kendine Ait Bir Fotoğraf” (Photography of Her Own), collection of her articles on photography. In 2008, she translated “Photographer and Revolutionary: Tina Modotti” (The life story of an Italian photographer) into Turkish. (Agora Publications) Since 2009, Aytek works as an instructor on photography, Media, and Visual Arts at Koç University.
Reference: laleperaytek.com, mava.ku.edu.tr, fotograf.net |
