Have just started posting our conversations with Bikem in English. Please visit OCCASIONAL DOODLES OF AGITATED MINDS.
Who are we?
Bikem Ekberzade a photojournalist based in Istanbul. She has worked for major news agencies, magazines and newspapers, no need to mention the names here. What she has witnessed on the field led her to start documentary projects that ran alongside her photojournalistic assignments, feeding financially from the assignments to later have lives of their own. The Refugee Project is one example. She lives half the year in Istanbul, half the year on the Aegean coast, still travels to odd places, and experiments with longterm projects. She has one book, and is about to finish her second one. No, no kids. Just books.
Özge Ersoy is currently a graduate student at Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. She's a victim of perennial curiosity about everything. When asked to be more specific, she says she's interested in artists' initiatives, art institutions, cultural policies, and culinary delicacies in the Southeastern Mediterranean countries. She likes smelling old books and speaking with her cactus, called Mahmut. She is also a founding editor of online arts and culture magazine, BoltArt. Lives and works in New York, NY.
