The “13th Sille Art Palace Members Meeting” held in Konya was held with the participation of 94 members from all over Turkey and abroad. As part of the event, Gazi Yüksel, a lecturer at the Faculty of Communications at the Near East University, was deemed worthy of the “World Photographer of the Year Honorary Award” for his valuable contributions to photography in the international arena. Gazi Yüksel was presented with the award by İbrahim Zaman, one of the important names in Turkish photography, and was presented with an honorary membership certificate by Sille Art Palace President Reha Bilir.
Sille Art Palace (SSS), which organizes various events every year to popularize the art of photography on national and international platforms and to support artists, contributes to the development of artists with photography workshops, exhibitions and educational programs.
Who is Gazi Yuksel?
Gazi Yüksel was born in Nicosia in 1963. After graduating from Haydarpaşa Commerce High School, he stepped into journalism in 1981 and worked as a photojournalist for the Birlik and Halkın Sesi newspapers and the Turkish Agency-Cyprus for 20 years.
Having won nearly 40 awards in national and international competitions, Gazi Yüksel founded the Northern Cyprus Photojournalists Association in 1991 and served as its president. Gazi Yüksel has had 12 solo exhibitions including news, sports, darkroom and art photographs, and has repeated some of these exhibitions in various cities in Turkey. Gazi Yüksel published his photography-poetry-music VCD works titled “Two Faces of Lefkoşa” in 2001, “Yemeni from Cradle to Grave” in 2003 and “Barış Struggle” in 2004. Gazi Yüksel graduated from the Department of Plastic Arts-Painting of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design of Near East University in 2012 and completed his master’s degree in 2018. Gazi Yüksel; He has been teaching “Basic Photography”, “Press Photography”, “Studio Photography”, “Advertising Photography” and “Image Processing” at the Near East University since 1991. Yüksel has 7 published books on the history of photography and photography.
