Ebru Varol

Now based in New York with her husband and son, Ebru Varol was born at the crossroads of East and West in the City of Istanbul. Throughout her artistic journey, she has been exploring and seeking to illustrate key questions relating to humanity: the duality of black and white, pain and pleasure, light and shadow. Her passion for these themes have led to an intense focus on what is pure and essential, a term she calls “The Light”. Her camera, her beloved silent companion and comrade in arms, finds the Light through a focus on the material world and its clean lines, objects, architectural structures, and landscapes.

Ebru’s “Retro” series pays homage to masters of street photography such as Eugène Atget and André Kertész. She focuses on neglected details and chance encounters with mannequins and figurines, chairs and windows, staircases, locks, other sculptural elements and the light disclosing all these forms. In a theatrical manner, her protagonists interact and activate desolate scenes while glass reflections and mirrors reinforce the illusion of life in her world.

Ebru has been exhibited internationally since 2014.