Background Information Ugur Gallenkus is a Turkish digital artist known for his work where he juxtaposes two very different photographs and finalises them as one picture. The nature of the two photographs are always very different: one of them would mostly involve a tragic scene from a war-zone, whereas the other one would normally show a more “peaceful” lifestyle that wealthier and luckier people live. In addition to his digital arts, Ugur Gallenkus has also published a book titled Parallel Universes of Children. The book contains his finalised photographs, quotes and statistics. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I discovered the work of Ugur Gallenkus, a Turkish digital artist, around March or April of 2019. I was 15 years old and still in high school. At that time, I was opening my eyes to many of the issues happening around the world, such as the civil war in Syria (and the subsequent refugee crisis), th...
drawn by me Red, blue and green kites for the colours of the flag of Afghanistan. Kites flying in the sky is a reference to The Kite Runner , written by Afghan author Khaled Hosseini. " I dream that lawla flowers will bloom in the streets of Kabul again and rubab music will play in the samovar houses and kites will fly in the skies. And I dream that someday you will return to Kabul to revisit the land of our childhood. If you do, you will find an old faithful friend waiting for you." - Hassan's letter to Amir
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