Cihan Öncü (b. 1986, Adıyaman). He graduated from the Primary School Teacher Education Programme at Dokuz Eylül University in 2010. He began his career with fashion photography. Creating various series since 2017, Öncü's photography that reflects his inner world, a plain visual aesthetic, comprises domestic pictures in which daily life objects play the leading role. Those scenes that function, in a way, as a tool for inward look thanks to the sense of intimacy they convey to the viewer are compositions founded on the dynamic relations and harmony between different elements. Every single photo, with their unique color palette, indicates a moment in which the motion is halted: It invites the viewer to hear the sound and odor. Although this invitation doesn't allow room for the viewer's imagination, it has the power to grasp it. In Öncü's works, relations and harmony among objects and between the objects and humans who are in interaction with them, gives a dynamism to his compositions. Cihan Öncü lives and works in Istanbul.
