ABOUT

Sebnem Eras Çelebi 

She was born in Ankara in 1976. She started photographing in the photography community during her university years. She graduated from Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Law in 1998. In the same year, She started her graduate education at Marmara University Faculty of Law. While She was still working as a lawyer, she followed her predominant passion for travel and photography and knocked on the door of Atlas Magazine, which She had been following since her childhood. She became the first female photographer of Atlas Magazine, whose photographer staff was all men at that time.

 She prepared short files around Istanbul until his first long file "Gökeyüp and Demirköprü Dam Lake" was published in Atlas magazine in 1999. A photograph of her published in the Atlas İstabul special issue was selected by the SİPA PRESS agency in 1999. Her selected photograph was exhibited together with Ara Güler, Coşkun Aral, Sébastiaõ Salgado and 80 master photographers in the exhibition “Istanbul Croisé Respect” in Paris on April 15, 1999. After this exhibition, many of her photographs were published and exhibited in various magazines and agencies in Turkey and abroad, especially in Atlas Magazine, in the years following 1999. More than 50 of his files were published in Atlas magazine.

She was entitled to participate in photojournalism seminars organized by World Press Photo in six countries together with Turkey between 2001-2003. At the end of the three-year study, the works of the participants were exhibited in Amsterdam and Paris. It was later made into a book.

In 2009, She published her long-term berdel interview, on which she prepared a legal anthropology thesis and followed for 8 years, as a book on Ntv publications. Şebnem Eras mainly takes photographs on people and culture.

 After 2007, she worked in various projects of non-governmental organizations, especially the Wheaten Association for Supporting Ecological Life, and provided visual document support. Eras left Istanbul in 2007 and settled in a village in the Kaz Mountains. Is a holistic life in harmony with ecological cycles possible?  What has the knowledge of life in ancient cultures turned into? How can we establish a sustainable and natural life together with ancient knowledge and modern scientific knowledge? Together with those who ask similar questions around such questions, Bir Tohum Foundation works at Çamtepe Ecological Life Center.  

Her legal career and doctorate education, which she pursues with the art and passion of photography, is still continuing. Şebnem Eras is married to Umut Çağdaş Çelebi and they have a child.