Bio
Born in 1975 in Turkey I moved to France for studies in 1994 where I live since then and where I developed and intensified my practice of photography. After a degree in political sciences and a master in turkish language and oriental civilizations, I cumulated a lot of jobs in various sectors.
Meanwhile I practiced photography as a hobby, mainly during my long periods of travel in Asia. Since few years, I’m focusing on documentary photography with long term projects about social & human issues, exclusively using film rolls.
I’m now looking forward to go back to Asia as soon as I find sponsors and funding in order to begin the second stage of my work in Mae Sot and about the Burmese/Karen refugees in Thailand with a medium format 6×7 film camera. In parallel I have a half dozen of other documentary projects in Asia I’m gonna work on as soon as I can go back to Asia or even better to settle there.
Contact
Currently in Paris-France, I’m available for assignments worldwide. For any photography project you may have, you can reach me at contact@samihguven.com or by phone at +33 6 41 84 17 77
You can follow all my posts relative to my essays & photography on my special facebook page and on twitter.
Prints
For any request of traditional hand made or fine art digital prints, send me an email at contact@samihguven.com.
Copyrights
All the photographs as well as the video material on this site are copyrighted and the exclusive property of Samih Güven. Photographs and video cannot be copied, published or reproduced in any form.
Links
Harika Studio – The company that has designed this site.
day2day – The photoblog of JC Lebreton.
BM Photo – The photography site of a swiss couple (Stephanie Borcard & Nicolas Metraux) traveling all around Asia.
Agnieszka Zdych The site of a german photographer focusing on cultural, social and environmental issues.
Viraj Photography A 25 months visual journey across Asia of a swiss couple (Lucie & Stéphane).
Phraw_Up - The french photographers collective which I’m a co-founder.