In 1999, she completed two years of professional photography training at NESOP Boston. has been working as a freelance photographer since 2001 and produces photography and video mostly on gender equality, memory and identity. Besides her artistic work, she also conducts photography workshops with women, children, and adolescents. Akcan is the co-founder of the NarPhotos Photographers Collective (2003-2020) and ZînKolektif (2023 – present). She is also a member of Women Photograph, The Journal Collective and Vatoz Platform
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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