Propelled by the desire to learn more about his family’s history, the young German-Turkish photographer Alparslan Kabasakal travelled to southern Turkey, where he spent several weeks living with a Yörük family from the Sarıkeçili tribe earlier this year. While there, he documented their way of life and their relationship to the landscape around them, providing insight into how the Yörük, semi-nomadic shepherds who have been travelling from the coast to the grassy highlands of the Taurus Mountains for hundreds of years between the summer and winter months, currently live and the various challenges they face. – Exhibition Text Stiftung Reinbeckhallen Berlin 2024
