5 November 2008 - 25 January 2009

Born in 1926 in Izmir, Göksin Sipahioglu's vocation as a jurnalist goes back to his childhood, when at the age of 12 he carried out an investigation of underground passages in Istanbul. His interest in analysing events and projecting himself into the future in order to imagine their consequences led him to found a political journal to which he contributed and of which he was to become the director. An eminent photographer, he was the first to enter communist Albania; the first to stay in Cuba during the Missile Crisis; and the first to become a travelling reporter for Hürriyet, the largest Turkish daily newspaper. In Paris, he covered the events of May 1968 and decided to found the Sipa agency with Phyllis Springer. This exhibition reveals his sense of composition, his empathy with Mankind and his skill in choosing subjects that have made History, remaining constantly alert.



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