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A Woman Giving Birth to Flowers

Reborn

Exhibitions & Awards: Exhibited at Artverse Gallery, Paris, during Paris Photo Fair 2025, Tezos Awards Exhibition | Runner - up Award in...

A Woman Giving Birth to Flowers

A Woman Giving Birth to Flowers centers on the ontological kinship between womanhood and nature, revealing their shared creative...

Inner Garden

Process: The project was built from the meeting of two distinct materials. In the first stage, analog portrait negatives shot on Ilford HP5...

Artverse Gallery at Paris Photo Fair 2025

"Reborn" from the series "A Woman Giving Birth to Flowers" meets an international audience at Artverse Gallery's exhibition space.

Paris Photo Fair 2025 - Artverse Gallery - Ayaz Yildiz

Paris Photo Fair 2025 - Artverse GalleryTezos Photography Art Awards - Experimental Photography Runner-up Award

Art on Tezos Photography Prize 2025, Experimental Category Runner-up Award

Awarded Artwork: Reborn, from the series A Woman Giving Birth to Flowers.

Burning the Negative

The burning of the 35 mm negative: fire meets film, producing the burn marks and melting points that become the voids of the image.

Step 1

Raw high-resolution scan of the burned negative.

Step 2

Tonal inversion and contrast work in Adobe Photoshop prepare the scan to receive the botanical layer.

Step 3

The organic textures integrated into the composition are derived from high-resolution photographs of ivy and leaves. Rather than...

Step 4, Synthesis & Final Composition

The culmination of the entire hybrid experimental process. The accidental texture of the burned analog negative meets the form of the...

Artist Statement

A Woman Giving Birth to Flowers explores the ontological kinship between womanhood and nature: two beings that are creative, nurturing...