Kürşat Bayhan
Istanbul, İstanbul, Turkey
He was born in Malatya in 1981. Graduated communication and journalism departmant at university of Marmara in 2003. His first book Away from Home published in 2013. Away from Home selected best photobooks of 2013 by Time Magazine Editors and selected to best photobooks of the year at PDN. He got the Grand Asian Photographer award from Photocity Sagamihara with his book project titled Away from Home in 2013. He has been selected to British Journal of Photograpy Ones to Watch İssue. With his project Flight of Yazidis he got the Grand Jury Prize of Japan İnternational Photo Awards. He works on conflict zones since 2003 and lives in İstanbul.
2015 - ones to watch , 2015 - Grand Asia Prize , 2015 - Grand Jury Prize , 2014 - best photobooks of the year , 2014 - best photobooks of the year, 2008 - photoreportage of the year in Turkey, 2007 - photojournalist of the year in Turkey
- Breaking news
- Conflict
- Crisis
- Environment
- Military embed
- Portrait
- Video capture
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Kürşat Bayhan
On 13 May 2014, an explosion at a coal mine in Soma, Manisa, Turkey, caused an underground mine fire, which burned until 15 May.In total, 301 people were killed in what was the worst mine disaster in Turkey's history.