Born in 1975, Gülşin Ketenci graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Mathematical Engineering. In 2004, she became interested in photography. She participated in many exhibitions with her works. Ketenci collaborated as a member of NarPhotos photo agency. She is currently a member of Zin Collective and carries out her own photo-video projects. She is also a member of Vatoz, The Journal_Collective and Women Photograph.

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ZînKolektif consists of the lens based artists Aylin Kızıl and Fatma Çelik from Diyarbakır, Serpil Polat from Dersim, Çiğdem Üçüncü from Hanau, Serra Akcan and Gülşin Ketenci from Istanbul.“We have been working together since 2012 in the Turkey-based photographers’ collective NarPhotos where we paid attention to understanding the issues that deeply affect us and the society we live in, documenting and narrating stories by using a visual language that is most natural to us. In late 2023, we founded ZînKolektif where we predominantly produce photography and multimedia works focused on issues such as migration, ecology, gender, war, social injustices and urban transformation. Also, our collective’s members organize visual storytelling workshops for children and adults in Turkey and Germany on a regular basis. We strongly believe in the empowering and elevating aspect of group processes since everything we experience, and also witness via our lenses, is not only personal, but political.” 

Exhibition Space: Bursa Union of Academic Chambers Campus