Sedat Pakay

Sedat Pakay was born in Turkey in 1945. Since 1963 he has been living in New York. He studied with Walker Evans, Paul Strand, and Herbert Matter at the Yale Art School, and received Master’s degree in Fine Arts in 1968. Pakay became a photo journalist for various magazines such as Holiday, Esquire and New York. He founded Hudson Film Works Inc. in 1989 and has produced and directed films on the lives and work of important 20th century artists such as Walker Evans, James Baldwin and Josef Albers. Pakay has had many solo exhibitions in prominent museums and galleries such as the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art in Istanbul (1995), Tremaine Gallery (1999), University of Wisconsin (2002), Museum of Photography in Balıkesir (2003), the Istanbul Modern Art Museum (2005), and the Northwest African American Museum (NWAAM) in Seattle (2013). His photographs can be seen in international private and museum collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian, Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Getty Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Istanbul Modern Museum and Lehigh University. Pakay currently lives and works in New York City, conducting workshops in his studio, and lectures on film and photography throughout the world.

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