I Show The Contrast Between The Two Worlds That We Currently Live In By Combining Photos (55 New Pics)
Hello, I’m Uğur Gallenkuş and I live in Istanbul, Turkey. I’m trying to show the important issues the world is facing, such as social injustice and war, by putting two pictures side-by-side within a single frame. By doing this, I want to demonstrate the contrast between the two different worlds we live in.
I started my first parallel universe work on a news story. I started to see fear and despair in the eyes of refugee children trying to get to Europe. I think we don’t know anything about war, famine, and other important issues. Today, you may be living in peace, but as long as these problems continue, you may eventually be exposed to them. As an artist, I believe that art is the master of all languages. For a long time, art has been used to create awareness that helps in awakening communities.
I wanted to show the difference between developed and underdeveloped countries. The message I want to convey through my work is versatile. Developed countries live in luxury and peace, but I would like to remind them that people in underdeveloped countries live in pain, hunger, and war. I also wanted to remind underdeveloped countries that they could elect better governments and get a decent education, so they can be as strong and peaceful as developed countries. I want to show the problems of the modern world, such as greed and injustice.
Modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had two premises: “Peace at home, peace in the world” and “The biggest battle is the war against ignorance”, and I wish the whole world would live by them.
Find my previous work here, here, here, and here.
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Joseph Duo, a Liberian militia commander loyal to the government, exults after firing a rocket-propelled grenade at rebel forces at a key strategic bridge July 20, 200, in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo: Chris Hondros
Mohammed Mohiedin Anis, or Abu Omar, 70, smokes his pipe as he sits in his destroyed bedroom listening to music on his vinyl player, gramophone, in Aleppo. Photo: Joseph Eid
Bombs drop from MIG-23 fighter east of the capital Damascus. Photo: Amer Almohibany
Refugees and migrants from Eritrea, Mali, Bangladesh and other countries wait on board a dinghy to be rescued in the Mediterranean Sea, 27 kilometers north of Sabratha, Libya. Photo: Santi Palacios
Destroyed buildings in Mosul framed through the window of a damaged hotel near the Old City. Photo: Felipe Dana
The four-year conflict between Yemen’s Saudi-backed government and Huthi rebels linked to Iran has pushed the already impoverished country to the brink of famine, leaving many unable to afford food and water, with a total of 5.2 million children at risk of starvation according to the NGO. Photo: Essa Ahmed
Vickie, 4, holds a hair brush in her mouth as she’s walking in the Kuluba, Uganda, transit camp, March 31, 2017. The civil war in South Sudan has killed tens of thousands and driven out more than 1.5 million people in the past three years, creating the world’s largest refugee crisis. Photo: Jerome Delay
A classroom completely destroyed after a Taliban attack in Swabi, Pakistan. August 2012. Photo: Diego Ibarra Sánchez
Child fighter poses with a gun at a military training facility during the Liberian Civil War. Photo: Patrick Robert
Migrants wait to be rescued by members of the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms, after leaving Libya trying to reach European soil aboard an overcrowded rubber boat, north of the Libyan coast. Photo: Felipe Dana
Daily life in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993. Graffiti on the wall: ‘Welcome to hell!’ Run better run. Or a Serbian sniper can shoot you. Photo: Laurent Van der Stockt
A 4-year-old Ali Nassar Fadil lies in a ward at the Italian Red Cross hospital, on April 13, 2004 after losing his left arm and leg 5 days ago from a blast injury by U.S forces who shot from the air killing his grandfather and 9 others in Fallujah, Iraq. Photo: Paula Bronstein
A woman walks past tents at a Syrian refugee camp in the Turkish town of Suruc in the Sanliurfa province on October 11, 2014. Photo: Aris Messinis
Gas masks, trenches, grenades, patriotic, hatred anthems on loop and wooden guns…. Hundreds of children play war games while they are getting trained in military disciplines and in firing tactics. Patriotic Education in Ukraine. 2018 Photo: Diego Ibarra Sánchez
A Rohingya refugee girl next to newly arrived refugees who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar in Ukhiya on September 6, 2017. Photo: K.M. Asad
Syrian refugee carrying his daughter towards Greece’s border with Macedonia, 2015. Photo: Yannis Behrakis
Syrian boy sits on a destroyed tank in Syria in 2015. Photo: Yasin Akgül
People gather to get water from a huge well in the village of Natwarghad in the western Indian state of Gujarat on June 1, 2003. Photo: Amit Dave
A Black hole of the Middle East. Flame and smoke are seen during an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour
Children of displaced Syrian refugee family use paving stones as pillows at Erbil, Iraq in 2013. Photo: Emrah Yorulmaz
An injured Syrian child waits for treatment at a makeshift hospital. Photo: Abd Doumany
In December 2005 in Southern Sudan, a boy drinks water from the Akuem River, near the village of Malual Kon in Bahr el Ghazal State. Only about one-third of the population has access to safe drinking water, and the threat of water-borne disease has increased as towns swell due to the return of displaced people and refugees following decades of civil war. Photo: Georgina Cranston
Kahlan, a 12-year-old former child soldier, demonstrates how to use a weapon, at a camp for displaced persons where he took shelter with his family, in Marib, Yemen. Houthi rebels took Kahlan and his classmates, promising to give them new school bags, but instead, they were enlisted and trained as fighters tasked with carrying supplies to the front lines. There, he had to elude explosions and airstrikes that left mangled casualties on the battlefield. “The sight of the bodies was scary,” he said. Thousands of child soldiers have been sent into combat in Yemen’s five-year civil war. Boys as young as 10 years are being recruited to fight on front lines. Reporter and photo: Nariman El-Mofty
Nine year old Alladin collects used ammunition to sell as metal in Aleppo, Syria. Photo: Niclas Hammarström
The Gang. Photo: Felipe Dana
An Afghan child stands inside the ruins of the devastated but functioning Habibia High School January 3, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The school, which reopens in Spring, was severely damaged by years of civil war. Photo: Mario Tama
A 12-year-old Kurshida holds her drawing at a CODEC and UNICEF “child-friendly space” on September 21, 2017 in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Kurshida fled to Bangladesh from Bourashidapara village in Myanmar almost a month ago. Her drawing depicts a scene that she witnessed while fleeing her village; the military shooting everywhere, lighting her home on fire, the military cutting her niece’s throat with a machete while she slept, her newborn sister being shot, a helicopter dropping bombs, and her neighbors being shot while they tried to flee. With children making up around 60 percent of the 420,000 Rohingya that have fled into Bangladesh, many below 18 years old arrived into the makeshift tents highly traumatized after seeing family members killed and homes set on fire. Photo: Allison Joyce
A refugee girl observes the sunset at Dibaga Refugee Camp. Iraqis caught in Islamic State crossfire flee to refugee camps near Mosul. The conflict has left behind deep scars in the psyche of children and it has reversed more than two decades of expansion of access to education. August, Iraq 2016. Photo: Diego Ibarra Sánchez
Five-year-old Anas receives treatment at a makeshift hospital in Kafr Batna after he was wounded in an air strike as he was playing outside his home on March 5, 2018. Photo: Ammar Suleiman
A wounded woman still in shock leaves Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, Sept. 20, 2012. Dozens of Syrian civilians were killed, four children among them, in artillery shelling by Syrian government forces in the northern Syrian town. Photo: Manu Brabo
Yelena Shevel, 10, who dreams of becoming a vet, learns to put on a gas mask during training at LIDER, a summer camp in the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine. She believes that “it is important to defend our homeland because if we don’t do it, then Russia will capture Ukraine and we will become Russia”. Hundreds of children play war games while they are getting trained in military disciplines and in firing tactics. The armed conflict between Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists is entering its fifth year; the conflict is still festering. Time for playing with toys is gone. Education is left in dreams. Schools are destroyed by indiscriminate shelling or deliberately turned into military posts. Children and teachers stay at home, afraid to step on a landmine or be caught in the crossfire of warring parties. The house of learning, envisioned as a safe haven, becomes a target. Reporter and photo: Diego Ibarra Sánchez
A view of a destroyed classroom, through a hole in a wall, shows the scars of the war inside the school of Tel Ruman. April 13th, 2016, Hasakah, Syria. The school remains closed after ISIS attack in July 2015. Photo: Diego Ibarra Sánchez
Protests against the US Embassy’s move to Jerusalem. Palestinians protesters take part during clashes with Israeli troops, near the border with Israel in the east of Gaza City, 13 April 2018. During the protests, dozens of people were killed and thousands were wounded by Israeli fire. Photo: Wissam Nassar
A former circus lion who’s missing an eye sits inside a cage in Lima, Peru. Photo: Rodrigo Abd
Children bear a brutal cost of endless war. As 10 children from the same family were walking to school last year, they came across an unexploded mortar bomb – a common sight in Afghanistan, where war still rages between the Taliban and US-backed national forces. Not realizing what it was or the dangers it posed, the curious kids picked up the device and took it to show their aunt. And then it exploded. Three children and the older relative were killed, and the remaining seven lost at least one limb each. This is just an unexploded ammo incident. There are thousands of civil people and children who have been killed or crippled in Taliban terrorist attacks and US or US-backed national forces air strikes. Photo: Noorullah Shirzada
Yemeni nurse weighs a malnourished child at a hospital in the northern district of Yemen. July, 2018. Photo: Essa Ahmed
A Yemeni boy steps on a trace of stained-blood on the floor outside a mosque following the assassination of Sheikh Mohammed Al-Zabhani, Imam and preacher of the largest mosques in the city “Masjid al-Saeed”, in the country’s third-city of Taez on May 14, 2018. Photo: Ahmad Al Basha
Central American migrants climbing the US and Mexico border wall in Tijuana. Photo: David McNew
Bottom: Rohingya refugees scramble for donations in the Balukhali camp on September 18, 2017 in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Children make up around 60 percent of the 420,000 Rohingya citizens that have fled into Bangladesh. Top: La Tomatina Festival is one of the most important festivals in Spain. The origins of the Tomatina are unknown, however, for decades thousands of people flood the region to pelt each other with over 100.000 kilograms of Spain’s finest tomatoes. Photo: Allison Joyce
A Syrian girl begs on the street of Istanbul as she hugs another child, on February 24, 2016. There are approximately 4 million refugees in Turkey. Such global problems are not the ones that one country can cope with and solve. Refugees belong to their countries. It is the duty of the international community to solve problems and conflicts in their countries. The task of international communities is not to monitor; you can solve the problems. Photo: Bülent Kılıç
A survivor of Hutu death camp. In just 100 days in 1994, about 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists. Photo: James Nachtwey
A Libyan rebel fires on a government jet as a facility burns on the frontline on March 9, 2011. Photo: John Moore
Volunteers help a refugee man and a baby as they hope to get into Europe and arrive on the shore of Greece‘s Lesbos Island after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey on November 2015.
Children are seen at the street as smoke rise from oil wells, which were set on fire by Daesh terrorists to limit coalition forces pilots’ eyesight and follow Iraqi army’s retaking of Al Qayyarah town in Mosul, Iraq on October 25, 2016. Black smoke badly affects life in the town. Photo: Emrah Yorulmaz
Bottom: Hands of refugees stretch out as they scramble for donations in the Balukhali camp on September 18, 2017, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Top: 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. Photos: Allison Joyce (bottom), Richard Heathcote (top)
It’s very simple to make children happy. A child has received aid distributed in Syria. Photo: Elif Akkuş
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