Gunes Kaplan is a photographer and visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice is informed by her background in sociology. Working across photography, painting, and material-based processes, she explores the relationships between people, place, memory, and lived experience.

Drawing from documentary observation while embracing a poetic and intuitive visual language, Kaplan investigates how landscapes, architecture, and everyday environments become carriers of personal and collective histories. Rather than documenting places as they appear, she examines the emotional, social, and psychological layers embedded within them, revealing the subtle traces that shape our relationship with place, identity, and belonging.

Moving between observation and interpretation, Kaplan constructs layered visual narratives through photography, painting, and material exploration. Her practice reflects on memory, transformation, resilience, and the evolving nature of human experience, inviting viewers to engage with the quiet stories held within places, objects, and everyday encounters.

Her work has been exhibited in national and international exhibitions and independent art platforms.

Professional Memberships

• Royal Photographic Society (RPS), United Kingdom

• ANFOK – Antalya Photography Club

Artistic Practice

• Photography

• Painting

• Material-Based Practices

• Memory, Place & Lived Experience

• Social Observation & Visual Narratives