Seth Akgün is a photographer and printmaker currently working between Baltimore and İstanbul. His work is informed by his experiences as a queer person in a multicultural context amid the fluctuating definitions of home and family. Working with traditional practices in analog photography and printmaking, he engages with abstraction to portray the complexities of relationships between the body, surroundings, and the self.

I've performed different versions of my identity for different audiences for as long as I can remember. Growing up between İstanbul and Abu Dhabi before moving to the United States at nine years old, constant shifts in my environment fragmented my relationship between my body and identity. As I try to describe the paralysing dissonance between my body and identity, words continue to fail me. Instead, I fragment, dislocate, and interfere with my images to embody this dissonance. Working in analog photographic processes allows me to explore different methods of visual interference which parallels the way queerness has created interference between me and my body. The camera is a mirror and a mediator—both a method of grounding myself in my body and of observing it intimately from the outside.