Leaving One for Another

The series Leaving One for Another is as personal and self-reflective as it is universal. Turkish-born artist Olgaç Bozalp is starting his series of photographs in his hometown, which he left many years ago to live and work in London. The experience and means of migration are at the centre of the images. What they depict is a mixture of staged and documentary photographs - the distinction between the two can only be guessed at. Bozalp develops a symbolic, narrative network of landscape shots, anonymous group shots, as well as individual portraits and photographs of objects. The result is a photographic essay that addresses themes of motion, transit and the forming of identity. Thwarting Western norms of representation, the artist uses his pictures to question the regime of observation and power structures in the wake of expulsion, flight and migration.