Q&A Essay: Ugur Gallenkus
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...