Pomak Bride by Eylül Ezik
Team credits
Model: Emma Frick from true models @emmafrick @truemodelsistanbul
Photography: Eylül Ezik @eylulezik www.eylulezik.com
Styling: Tarık Gül @tarikgul www.tarikgul.com.tr
Make Up Nuvit Tiryaki @nuvit
Hair Styling İsmail İnan @ismailinan1
Photography Assistant Hami Özkan @ozkanhami
About the project
For ages, weddings have an important role in our lives. In that shooting we want to emphasize the matter of weddings as a harmony of the past and the present, especially Turkish Pomak culture that we get inspired. As a focus in close up frames, we recognise at the very first sight the make up and the accessories as a reflection of cultural rituals. Forms, colours and dimensions are changing ages to ages but this shooting tells us that it is really hard to distinguish former days from nowadays. Moreover, these photo-portrait series presents the most important Turkish bridal ritual, henna, colourful and patterned flakes in Pomak culture and also the passion of accessories to the auidience in a fashionable way.
Bio
Eylül Ezik is a fashion photographer based in İstanbul. She is graduated from English Literature department and then having a passion for photography she educated in Istanbul Fashion Academy, Fashion Photography. From literature to photography she creates a visual language in fashion area, specifically editorial photography. Story-telling is the main thing in her works and her source of inspirations are movies, narrations, cultures and daily life itself.