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...
Lately, like usual, a lot of thoughts have been flying around in my head. Also like usual, it's one of those things that I don't think I - or anyone else, really - has an answer for. Regardless of that, I will write an essay about it right now for the sole purpose of expressing my opinion. Note that what I say might still be disagreeable to some people. :-) I notice that I have trash-talked the youth quite a lot and have failed multiple times to give this generation - MY generation - credit on all the good things that they have accomplished. The truth is that no generation is perfect, and as we enter a new year, a new decade or a new century, many things would have obviously changed for the newer generations. Today, however, is the day I express the appreciation towards Gen Z-ers and Millennials that I never have. First and foremost, my generation is currently living under the older generation's rules, policies and decisions th...
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