Biographie
Kamil Zihnioglu is a Franco-German photographer who lives and works in Corsica. In 2014, while studying photography at the École de Condé, he began working with Sipa Press and then Associated Press for almost seven years. In contact with the Corsican territory from to 2018, he moved closer to documentary photography through , towards which he developed a personal work, entitled Intraccià, which questions Corsica's multiple identities.
Winner of the BNF's “Grande commande photographique” and 2021 CNAP (Centre national des arts plastiques) 2020 Jury Prize at the Salon de la Photo.
Présentation
Here or elsewhere, how do we embrace a place we love?
Press photographer Kamil Zihnioglu decided in 2020 to leave Paris to live in Corsica. Putting aside his approach as a journalist, he embarked on an impossible quest: to capture in images the identity of this island and the people who inhabit it. Like a mirror, the waters of the Mediterranean reflected his own face. "Who are you?" they seem to be asking him. The photographer seeks out sensitive traces to redraw an intimate and poetic map of Corsica. Intraccià is the fruit of this wandering, this love and this inexplicable feeling of belonging to a land that is not his own.