Osman Bozkurt (b.1970, Turkey) studied photography at Mimar Sinan University and is co-founder of PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space, a non-for-profit, independent artist-run space in Istanbul. Bozkurt uses photography and video to instigate notions of a civic memory, and to witness the intricacies and forgotten paradoxes of urban life. His works have been exhibited at Tate Modern, London; Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul; Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Udine; Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; North Adams, MA; Asia Triennial Manchester, UK and many other group exhibitions. He lives and works in Istanbul.