MEMBER SHOW PROFILE // Photographer Beril Gulcan Plays Connect the Dots

All images courtesy of Beril Gulcan

On Friday Nov. 18th, 3rd Ward's Fall Member Show goes down. In the run-up, we'll be profiling a handful of the members/artists participating. Today, we bring you photographer, Beril Gulcan:

Gulcan was a producer for fashion photographers in her native Turkey before moving to New York and becoming a photographer herself--so, people are a common subject for her. But her latest series Unknown Texture is the realization of a lifelong fascination. (See more after the jump.) "I've always had an obsession for freckles," she says. "All of the men in my family are redheads with freckles." So she got up close an personal with her relatives' speckled skin, and that of her best friend--"but I consider her family." 

This is Gulcan's second time in Member Show. After finishing an International Center for Photography program, we saw her work in the May show Between You & Me, a series of portraits of mothers and daughters together. "For that one, I shot them in their homes, so it would be more natural."

Gulcan is working on opening a studio in Williamsburg, where she'll do portraits and other commercial work. "That's really what I've been working on lately, is opening the studio," she says. "The business plan, finding a space, it's a lot." We're quite confident she'll make it all happen.

Now hit the jump for those photos.

 

 -- Layla Schlack