Gunes Kaplan is a photographer and visual artist whose practice explores memory, space, and the invisible emotional layers embedded within everyday life. Combining a documentary sensibility with a poetic and intuitive visual language, her work focuses on urban landscapes, architectural traces, human presence, and the emotional residue carried through both collective and personal memory.

Through photography, Kaplan investigates light, silence, absence, and the fragile relationship between individuals and their surroundings. Streets, historical structures, fleeting encounters, and ordinary moments become psychologically charged visual narratives within her practice, revealing the social and emotional dimensions hidden beneath daily life.

Her work engages with themes of belonging, temporality, loss, resilience, and transformation through the lens of spatial memory. Moving between documentation and personal interpretation, she explores the unstable boundary between reality and emotional perception through both black-and-white and colour imagery.

Alongside photography, Kaplan works across painting and wood-based practices, using material processes to reflect the fragmented nature of memory and the vulnerability of human experience.

Her work has been exhibited in national and international exhibitions and independent art platforms. She is a member of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS), SAKUDER, and ANFOK.