Cem Ersavcı was born in Ankara in 1982, and graduated from the Photography and Video Art Programme at Yıldız Technical University in 2007. After attending the Advanced Visual Storytelling Programme at the Danish School of Media and
Journalism in Denmark in 2010, he received his MA in Photography at the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts in 2011 with a thesis titled ‘Personal Narratives as a Sub-genre in the Aesthetics of Documentary Photography’.
Along with his solo exhibitions, he participated in various group exhibits both in Turkey and abroad, and had his photographs featured in a number of magazines. In his work, he focused on urban situations, spatial affairs, and particularly how humans relate to the earth. Travel and the way of the road were essential to both his life and his art. The desire to understand and interpret the world and landscapes he lived in and explored was at the heart of his photographs. Another crucial component of his photos was the ever-changing and evolving connection between the inside and the outside. He reflected on human relationship with society and being in unity as much as he did on human solitude. He did not hesitate to show both the visible and the hidden, both what exists and what doesn’t and what has been deliberately effaced.
He worked as a freelance photographer until he passed away on August 25, 2014.