“With a self-built painting suitcase and a DSLR camera, Can travels to Turkey in order to investigate the effects of state oppression on daily life. During his travel, he meets three academics; Baris Kilicbay, Nur Betul Celik and Cenk Yigiter, who faces charges on terrorism, discharge from academic duties and a travel ban, after raising their voices against state violence on Kurdish population in 2016. They open up their private spaces to tell their personal stories, share their opinions and give an insight of their past and daily lives, while being painted ”

“Meet Sevan:

A diligent Armenian Turkish writer, linguist and self taught architect. While trying to unfix dogmatic ideologies and to repair what has been broken in Anatolia, he was subjected to a decades long nation wide smearing campaigns, dozens of lawsuits and multiple jail sentences.

I met him in January 2018 in Samos, a Greek island near Turkey where he now lives after his prison escape. He gave me a tour of this idyllic island as I took pictures. We later sat down for an interview and a portrait.”