Uğur Gallenkuş is a world-known digital artist based in Istanbul, Turkey. He gained his popularity with thought-provoking photo collages conscientiously addressing the "widening global divide between the privileged and oppressed, weaving together misery and mirth, wealth and poverty and love and despair".
"I aim to showcase the significant social issues our world is facing, such as injustice, war, climate change, etc., by juxtaposing two pictures side-by-side within a single frame. Through these photography artworks, I strive to illustrate the contrasts between the two different worlds we live in and prompt reflection on making decisions that will minimize these problems by fostering empathy," the artist previously wrote on Bored Panda.
We've collected the newest work by Gallenkuş, so scroll down to see his latest creations.
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Photo by Yasin Akgül
"A Syrian schoolgirl crossing through a damaged wall outside her school in the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab on March 25, 2015."
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Photo by Carolina Rapezzi
"Rashida is a water merchant, selling water mainly in the burning areas in Accra, Ghana in 2018."
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Photo by Amer Almohibany
"A Syrian government forces' a fighter-bomber drops a payload during a reported air strike in the rebel-held area of Qabun, east of the capital Damascus, on May 6, 2017."
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Photo by Hugues Robert
Collaboration between Uğur Gallenkuş and Doctors Without Borders (#MSF)
"A staff member getting dressed in full personal protection at the Ebola treatment center in Bikoro, Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2018."
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Photo by Aleksey Filippov/AFP via Getty Images
Collaboration between Uğur Gallenkuş and WHO Foundation (#WHOFoundation)
"A patient stands in a hospital destroyed as a result of shelling between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on July 19, 2015."
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Photo by Luca Sola
Collaboration between Uğur Gallenkuş and Doctors Without Borders (#MSF)
"In 2015, In the aftermath of the floods in Nsanje district, the southern region of Malawi, 7-year-old Alesi Phiri walks through a field looking at the thick layer of dried mud covering it."
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Photo by Noorullah Shirzada
"Afghan children work at a coal yard on the outskirts of Jalalabad on April 28, 2018."
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Photo by Allison Joyce
"Hands of refugees stretch out as they scramble for donations in the Balukhali camp on September 18, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh."
Photo by Richard Heathcote
"Players of the USA lift the Women's World Cup Trophy following the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup France Final match between The United States of America and The Netherlands at Stade de Lyon on July 07, 2019 in Lyon, France."
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Photo courtesy of US National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office
"The 11-megaton ROMEO Event was part of Operation Castle. It was detonated from a barge near Bikini atoll on 26 March 1954."
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Photo by Patryk Jaracz
"On July 27, 2022, A Grad Rocket launcher operated by Ukrainian defence forces on wheat fields near city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine which Russian army keeps trying to capture until this day.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian exports of grain have been severely disrupted. For over four months, Russian military vessels have been blocking Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea.
On 22 July 2022, an agreement was brokered by the United Nations and Turkey to open a safe maritime humanitarian corridor in the Black Sea (the Black Sea Grain Initiative). Since then, over 500 ships full of grain and other foodstuffs have left three Ukrainian ports: Chornomorsk, Odesa and Yuzhny/Pivdennyi.
While unblocking the sea export route has helped to address the global food security crisis and lower grain prices, the export backlogs remain significant. via the European Council
In 2020, Ukraine exported $4.61B in Wheat, making it the 5th largest exporter of Wheat in the world. At the same year, Wheat was the 3rd most exported product in Ukraine. The main destination of Wheat exports from Ukraine are: Egypt ($1.22B), Indonesia ($544M), Pakistan ($496M), Bangladesh ($295M), and Lebanon ($239M). via OEC - The Observatory of Economic Complexity"
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