The Tire Repairer Fatoş
Fatma Mutlucan Yıldırım is repairing tires in Güdül district of Ankara. Fatma, who is 35 years old, dropped out of high school. She worked at a market for a while and then opened a stall in a bazaar.
Fatma made her first marriage at the age of 16, they divorced. She has a daughter who is just fifteen years old. She has been married to her second husband Mustafa Yıldırım since 2012. Her husband also has an 18-year-old daughter. The girls live in Ankara and come to visit on holidays.
Until four years ago, Mustafa was repairing tires with his brother. Fatma also used to visit the workshop and help them. When Mustafa got a job in the municipality, his brother thought of closing the workshop, however Fatma took over it. Thus, she became tire repairer Fatoş.
The workshop is open seven days a week. Tire repairer Fatoş goes to the shop around 10 am after doing the housework in the morning, and passes her day by repairing tires. In the evening, her husband come to help her after his shift is over. They return home together.
She was born in Ankara in 1974. She works as a teacher at the Ministry of Education. She started photography in 2011 with AFSAD trainings. After training in different workshops, she became a member of AFSAD. She takes part in various projects and continues photography with personal projects. She participated in mixed exhibitions. Sometimes she takes photographs to keep the memories alive, sometimes to notice and differentiate the aesthetic feelings by freezing the differences and sometimes to create empathy between different cultures by documenting what happened in the lives we do not know.
Since 1993 he has been working as free accountant and financial advisor. He has two sons and is single. He started photography by training in the “SMMO” photography community. The photo he started as a hobby became a passion. He continued to work in various workshops before AFSAD and continued with the “photo f” with İsa Özdemir. He worked as an assistant in AFSAD documentary workshop for two terms. He took part in different projects with TFSF and AFSAD. Generally, people and portraits take pictures based on life. He became a member of AFSAD in 2014. He still continues the projects within AFSAD.