SCANOGRAPH
 I
hope that you have met with this innovation in photographic art, or you
are to discover it soon. The photographs done with the technique, which
Uğur Okçu calls "Scanograph", carry the traces of abstract art; Photographic
abstractions. At times, you see object in the photographs, but more likely,
your senses are activated by the musical traces of it. It is almost impossible
to perceive these photographs at first sight; they are observed and experienced
within their own consecutive stages. The unique
character of this type of photography that constitutes its livelihood is
the co-existence of two ways of perception, both continuos and in time intervals.
The impression I get from Uğur Okçu's photographs is that of living through
the dynamism of nature in continuously changing influences. The emotional
stages one lives through in the face of nature are turned in to a joyful
dynamism, resembling mental abstractions. Facing nature, our mental activity
never corresponds to the still image of the photography. This is why many
are disappointed from the image, taken after a passionate discovery in nature.
Possibly, what is impressive in that scene is not the appearance itself;
it is the painter maintains this through abstraction, and so do Uğur's photographs;
they capture the essential. I also would
like to remark on certain other characteristics of these works;
Uğur Okçu, a fast
driver, adventure seeker and an impatient personality, never gives up experimenting
and producing new projects. He does not settle with an achievement of this
sort, even after a painstaking number of years. Already, he has some new
ideas for future projects; "This is not only a technical medium or matter
of technique. I want to make my sensations alive in my photographs". Even
without planning on small details towards his goal, Uğur is able to bring
them all together on the target. Muharrem PİRE - PAINTER |
"Movement" sergisi / Exhibition of "Movement"
Ugur Okcu
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