Branding and Design

Murat Süyür

June 27th, 2009

When I asked what art impresses him, professional photographer and conceptual artist Murat Süyür replied, that “which has a new point-of-view, a new vision.” Appropriately, that’s why his work impressed me, so I asked him a few more questions.

Who are you?

I’m a conceptual and advertising photographer from Turkey.

Why do you create?

I just create because there is nothing more to do with the things in my mind. It’s like decharging.

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Explain one advantage and one disadvantage to being a professional photographer in Turkey.

Advantage is we’re in the middle of European and Asian cultures, so this makes our vision a little bit different from others.

Disadvantage is generally clients are thinking the advertising is an unnecessary expenditure and can’t see how important the branding is. This makes shooting budgets too low and as you can guess budget is something really important for photoshootings, productions, post productions.

If there is not enough budget to make a big production, the work isn’t going to be a charming and attractive thing.

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Describe a typical photo shoot. Where do you shoot? Who’s on your crew? How is your working style unique?

A typical photo shoot is starting with a brief in agency. Art directors make a concept for the clients, and they explain to me what kind of images they need by showing me the storyboard or a sketch. Then we make a plan for that shooting with my agency handling the production part.

After everything gets ready, we start shooting it with the art directors, producers, clients, all in a set. I generally shoot in studio but it depends on the work of course.

Even the easiest shooting takes 3-4 hours at least, but generally shooting takes the whole day. After shooting, the post-production starts for me. I’m using a middle format Hasselblad camera for my shootings with studio flashes.

I have some friends who are interested in shootings too much and they help me every time. I can say that they are my crew.

I don’t think I have an unique working style. Maybe just my works are different.

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Digital art is evolving rapidly in all directions. Which way are you headed?

Digitalism is really getting popular in every part of our life. Of course in art also. 3D designs and illustrations are being a real threat to photography, especially still life photography. 3D designs are getting easy and so realistic that we won’t need to take pictures in 5-6 years’ time. So I’m a bit into learning some 3D designing tools. But I’m also changing my style a bit to people — portraits and wide-angle conceptuals instead of tabletop still life works.

My thanks Murat for sharing his work. Please visit his deviantART page for more.