ÇAĞLA BAYKAL
The Seed (Series)
DESCRIPTION
“Speak silently, if speak you must
Like the woman speaking to a seed
The soft shall survive the hard
Like the tongue survives the teeth”
The metal sculpture named 'Seed' is from the series of 'GMO' (genetically modified organisms) forms by sculptor Tugrul Selcuk. The metal surface is representing how technology destroyed the organisms. The seed became like a metal, it is cold and artificial; it has lost its nature.The chain effect surely will be modifying the coming generations in human kind. 'The seed' is representing how human kind are adapting to new genetically modified organisms, without considering their effects to future generations. How these GMO will effect future generations is one of a big question soon we have to face... The woman's nature is about collecting, transforming and creating. She will somehow make life survive with what ever she has in her hands. She is the mother. But when it comes to earth she is loosing her child day by day, the first seed, the unborn. The new construct is in her hands. She will decide our future. (...)
AUTHOR
Cagla Baykal, is a fine art photographer, based in Istanbul, Turkey.
She started her career as a fashion director for a global magazine Marie Claire Turkey in 1996 and continued in fashion director of Elle Turkey, after her graduation from LCF (London College of Fashion) Fashion Design. In following years, she has been the art and fashion director of most known campaigns in fashion, commercial, photography and television industries.
She started her second career as a Fine Art photographer. Her works has been published in global magazines.
Awards
Fine Art Photography Awards 2020 (FAPA), Nominees in four categories, 'Open Theme', 'Open Theme (again)', 'Nudes' and 'Photomanipulation'.
International Photography Awards 2019 (IPA), Honorable Mention in two categories 'Collage' and 'Special, Digitally Enhanced'.
Neutral Density Photography Awards 2019 (ND AWARDS), Honorable Mention in four categories, ‘Photomanipulation’, ‘Landscape’, 'Nudes’, ‘Photomanipulation (again)’.
Fine Art Photography of the year 2019 (FAPA), in one category 'Fine Art Nudes'.
International Photographer of the Year 2017, Honorable Mention in three categories,' Abstract', 'Nude' and 'Conceptual'.
International Photographer of the Year 2016, Honorable Mentionsin four categories, such as 'Abstract', 'Landscape', 'Editorial Daily Life' and 'People Fashion/Beauty'.
Her works exhibited in Contemporary Istanbul in 2015.
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