Photo exhibition «Illuminations»

In the Art Gallery of the Museum Center from 15th to 20th December, 2008 the exhibition of an American photographer of Turkish origin Tuba Oztekin took place. Her shows were successfully demonstrated in the USA, Mexico and Turkey.
Tuba Oztekin is a graduate student of Bilkent University in Ankara, where she got her BA on «Graphic design». She got Master's degree already in the USA, in Merilend university (Baltimore).There her first personal exhibition took place ten years later. Then there were Texas and North Carolina, and geography of her exhibitions flowed over the ocean — Baku was the first city in our continent. As for joint exhibitions, their spectrum in biography of the author is vast, but geographically it is three countries: the USA, Mexico and Turkey. In Turkey, in 1997, Tuba Oztekin got the first award - diploma of photographic competition, organized by «Pamukbank». Later, in 1999, her works entered collection of the National archive of sliding works by women.
By the way, on a motherland of Tuba in Turkey more than ten years before was shown her videoinstallations and Baku continued this tradition. Here she proposed the vast series of her works — not only photo compositions but also installations — under the main title «Illumination». Theme of light — one of the main in her activity, thus she identically successfully reflects it both picture and other areas of her creations. Effulgent optimism of her works allowed one of the American journalists say in his article about this photo the “Turkish delight”. During her staying in our capital Tuba Oztekin gave master-class for young masters of picture.