ALİ SALTAN (1982) lives and works in between Çanakkale and Ankara.

He studied Sociology at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and received his MA in Gender and Women’s Studies from Ankara University in 2010. Particularly interested in the study of issues related to border, identity and immigration in the context of political and cultural geography, subcultures, urban memory, surplus and gentrification.
His works have been exhibited in ​Aidex Forum, Geneva (2024); Fikret Otyam Arts Center, Ankara (2023); Aquarium, Berlin Kreuzberg

(2022); Fetart Circulation(s), Paris (2022); OFF Bratislava (2021); Auditorium della Tecnica, Rome (2018); CerModern, Ankara (2018); Depo, İstanbul (2014); Inex Gallery, Belgrad (2014); FotoIstanbul (2014); Armenian Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan (2013) and Amed Art Gallery, Diyarbakır (2013) among many others.
His work ‘Beyond the River’ was published as a book in 2012. Other than that his works have been published in İZ magazine (2019); Kontrast magazine (2019); ‘Surplus of Istanbul’ (2014); ‘MerhaBarev’ (2009); National Geographic Armenia (2009), and he has contributed to several magazines as a writer.

He is one of the finalists of the Lens Culture Portrait Awards (2019) and winner of OFF Bratislava Lee Award (2021).
He worked as an instructor in various photography related courses at Başkent University, Ankara and Ankara University between 2010-2018, Currently he works on commissioned photography and video projects for several NGOs such as WHO, UNICEF, GIZ, Humans Right Association, etc.

He is an affiliate of PLATFORM by GAPO.

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