Işıklı Lake and Its People
Büyük Menderes River originates from Işıklı Lake in Çivril Plain. The seventeenth largest lake in Turkey, Işıklı Lake is one of the 135 wetlands of international importance. In 2016, the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization declared Işıklı Lake as a wetland of national and international importance.
Işıklı Lake in Çivril Plain is disappearing due to rapidly increasing global warming, environmental problems and negative human effects. The pollution of the lake water, the decrease of the waters that feed the lake and unconscious agricultural irrigation negatively affected the natural balance.
People in the villages of Beydilli, Sundurlu, Bucak, and Gökgöl around the lake are engaged in fishing, as well as breeding cattle.
The economic and social structure in the villages are changing rapidly, young people are looking for their future in big cities, not in the lake.
Born in Çivril / Denizli ,1983. He completed Anadolu University business administration in 2011 and Pamukkale University Sales and Marketing department in 2013. He is currently studying Photography and Videography at Anadolu University. Operator. He has been interested in photography since 2001. He takes street, night and macro photos. “Photography is another form of telling for me, getting into and witnessing ” Although his journey with photography started with the first analog machine he bought in 2001, he started his real photography works in late 2014. Member of Denizli Photography Art Association (DEFSAD). He received various awards in national and international competitions. He tries to build his photographs with composition, framing and light knowledge based on Robert Capa's saying: "I always prefer a technically bad but strong image to a good but weak image." The purpose of taking photographs is to convey people the lives they could not see, to take them where they could not go and to see the sections they could not see.