FATMA ÇELİK (1987) lives and works in Diyarbakır.
She graduated from İnönü University Department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance. Since 2009, she’s been working as a counselor at schools in Diyarbakır. She also volunteers with children and women through civil society organizations. Her photography and video work focuses on migration, identity, memory, ecology, and gender.
She joined NarPhotos Collective in 2012 and was a member until 2021 when the collective ended.
Her photography works have been exhibited widely at home and abroad such as American Center for Photographers (2024); Asia and Pasific Museum (2023); Noorderlicht International Photo Festival (2023); Depo, İstanbul (2020, 2017, 2014); Bomontiada, İstanbul (2018); Amed Şehir Tiyatrosu, Diyarbakır (2018); Çetin Emeç Art Gallery, İzmir (2018); Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wuk, Vienna (2015) and İstanbul Modern (2014) among many others.
Her documentaries and short videos are shown at several festivals and screenings. Berlin Kurdish Film Festival (2023); Hong Kong Asian Film Festival (2022); 'Future is Short', Istanbul Modern Cinema (2022); İstanbul Kurdish Film Festival (2022); İFSAK Short Film Festival (2022); 'Umanitaria Contest', Babel Film Festival (2021); Documentarist Film Fest (2021); The Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival (2021) and Başka Sinema Ayvalık Film Festival (2021) are a few of the recent ones to mention.
Within the scope of NGBK and Depo Istanbul residency programme, she worked on healing horticulture in Berlin between 2023-2024.
She attended several workshops and artistic production programs such as 'EurasiaDoc Amed Script Writing Workshop', Diyarbakır and İstanbul (2021); ‘Voicing Voices’, BAK Collective Video Production Workshop, Diyarbakır (2020); ‘Bahçenin şehri, şehrin bahçesi’, Multimedia Workshop, Diyarbakır (2014) and ‘BAK: Revealing the city through Memory’, Diyarbakır and İzmir (2013-14).
She currently works on a medium-length film about Özgür Gündem Newspaper and on a documentary film experimenting with a healing garden in connection with the ‘Back to Nature’ Project.
She is one of the co-founders of Zin, a lens-based storytellers collective, and an affiliate of PLATFORM by GAPO.