Thana Faroq: “A Photograph Is Never Innocent” – On Migration, Memory and What Images Cannot Hold

In this interview, photographer Thana Faroq discusses her Yemeni roots, unconventional academic path blending politics with photography, and acclaimed book ‘I Don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows’. She reflects on exile, identity, and long-term relationships with subjects in asylum centers, her use of text as image, mentorship of women photographers, and her debut film ‘Imagine Me Like a Country of Love’.

Emin Ozmen: Documenting Turkey’s Unfinished History Through Photography

From the trauma of the 1993 Sivas massacre to documenting wars, displacement and political upheaval across Turkey and the Middle East, Magnum photographer Emin Özmen reflects on memory, conflict, hope and the responsibility of bearing witness. A deeply personal conversation about photography as history, evidence and an enduring act of conscience.

Ed Kashi: Four Decades of Witnessing Humanity Through Photography

For more than four decades, Ed Kashi has documented some of the world’s defining human, environmental and social crises through photography and film. In this conversation with Emaho, the acclaimed National Geographic photographer reflects on visual storytelling, long-form documentary practice, climate change, conflict, multimedia journalism, and why bearing witness remains one of photography’s most enduring responsibilities.

Begum Yamanlar: Memory, Ruin and Photographing Vanishing Spaces

Turkish photographer and visual artist Begum Yamanlar explores the fragile intersections of memory, architecture, landscape, and time. In this conversation with EMAHO, she reflects on vanishing spaces, Istanbul’s evolving identity, photography as a medium of remembrance, AI, and why the unseen often reveals more than the visible.