About Exhibition
Stolen Dreams

This exhibition sponsored by LOGO Yazılım, consists of images produced through techniques of conventional photography, processed in a personal computer and returned back to conventional photographic material.

Each of these composite images represent one of a series of dreams, dreamt by the same imaginary person at different times. Due to the well known symbolic structure of dreams, it is not apparent what each of the individual images combined on the same two dimensional surface refers to and in which order they were dreamt. The only person who has the chances of finding this out is obviously the dreamer. Therefore, the photographer lacks the opportunity to explain more and it is unavoidable and already foreseen that each viewer will interpret each dream in his/her own individual way.

These composite and hand colored images have been prepared on a PC based workstation through Windows compatible image processing software. A Polaroid CI-5000 Digital Palette Film Recorder has been used for 35 mm negative output.

As the photographs themselves may reveal, the PC environment has been used for this project due the additional creativity provided by the new options such as quick decision changing, undoing, no-cost trial and error etc. as well as new visual effects special to this medium. It should also be noted that the PC has been treated throughout the project as an ordinary photographic tool of our day and not as a high-tech alternative to existing practices.

Merih Atalay from the Turkish State Theater who posed for these images has further contributed to the project through make-up, costumes and joint improvisation of the dreams.