Lagoon Fences
Çukurova Dalyan consists of reed sets extending for kilometers in its mouth opening to the sea in Yumurtalık Lagoon in Adana.
Mediterranean fish enter this lagoon to feed before spawning. Busy working days also begin for Captain Fethi Aydan and his team Hüseyin Aydan, Muhsin Aydan, and Ömer Yıldırım. They lay the reed bars of ten meters in length and one hundred and fifty kilograms in weight they prepared on land in the mouth of the lagoon.
These bars trap the fish who want to go out to sea to breed. Together with the fish, all five men remain behind the lagoon bars for months.
They have two huts: one on the land and one on the line through the sea. After laying the lagoon railings, they settle in the one on the line. They work day and night in very unhealthy and severe conditions. They constantly check the lagoon fences, make the necessary interventions and hunt.
After this five-month period, reed sets are dismantled as February approaches. While the fish reach the open sea, the fishermen make their way home.
He was born in Adana in 1958. After graduating from the Machine-Motor High School, he graduated from Anadolu University Faculty of Business Administration. He became a member of Adana Photography Amateurs Association AFAD in 2010 and the successes of various international competitions were given AFIAP title by FIAP in 2012. In 2015, he completed Anadolu University Associate Degree Program Photography and Videography department. He started photography in 2009 with the technical similarity of his interest in painting. He aimed at photographing to testify by observing the sections taken from the street and social life and stories about his people. To share the moment with the people in the photo frames, to be the witnesses of their lives, to reflect the plain visuality to the photography while trying to convey the reality as someone from that life. He is still living in Adana and is a member of AFAD and AKSD (Adana Culture and Art Association).