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Angolan Women

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I shoot these photos while visiting Luanda capital of an African country Angola in 2015. In Luanda you can see women all over on the streets carrying different things on their heads. These women walk around in the city all they long to sell the things on their heads and make some money. Unlike some countries which have the same tradition, in Luanda you can’t see any man carrying thins on their heads to sell.
It’s so amazing to see how these women are able to carry all those things on their heads.
Buket Özatay was born in Nicosia, Cyprus and studied business management and marketing in the USA before completing her MBA degree in Cyprus. She then won an EU grant for a five month training programme at the EU Commission and is now studying for an associate degree in Photography and Filmmaking at the Open University Faculty of Anatolia University. Since 1995 she has jointly run her family company Özatay Photography with her two brothers and is regarded as the first contemporary female photography entrepreneur in the history of Cyprus Turkish photography. Özatay has produced and presented the television programme “Buket Özatay and Photography Enthusiasts” for BRT TV in 2014-15 and also gives beginners photography lessons at the Gönyeli Social Activities Centre (SAM).
Her early photographic portfolio of classical and documentary works took an artistic turn from 1997 when her modernist and abstract compositions brought her to the forefront of Cyprus Turkish photography. Özatay’s works include documentary, portrait, travel and street photography and have been widely published, some as cover pictures, in magazines, newspapers, catalogues and brochures or online. Her photographs have been exhibited in international competitions in 52 countries across six continents and she is the first Turkish Cypriot to have won a first prize in South Cyprus. She was awarded the qualification badge in photography in the USA and France in 2014-15. Özatay is also the first female Turkish Cypriot photographer to win a gold medal in her home country and at international photography competitions held by PSA (Photographic Society of America) and FIAP (the International Federation of Photographic Art). She is also one of the first two women to win the AFIAP in 2014 and EFIAP in 2015; photography artist and excellence titles from the organization which has consultative status at UNESCO
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I shoot these photos while visiting Luanda capital of an African country Angola in 2015. In Luanda you can see women all over on the streets carrying different things on their heads. These women walk around in the city all they long to sell the things on their heads and make some money. Unlike some countries which have the same tradition, in Luanda you can’t see any man carrying thins on their heads to sell.
It’s so amazing to see how these women are able to carry all those things on their heads.
About author:
Buket Özatay EFIAP, RISF3, Master.ICS, Master.USPABuket Özatay was born in Nicosia, Cyprus and studied business management and marketing in the USA before completing her MBA degree in Cyprus. She then won an EU grant for a five month training programme at the EU Commission and is now studying for an associate degree in Photography and Filmmaking at the Open University Faculty of Anatolia University. Since 1995 she has jointly run her family company Özatay Photography with her two brothers and is regarded as the first contemporary female photography entrepreneur in the history of Cyprus Turkish photography. Özatay has produced and presented the television programme “Buket Özatay and Photography Enthusiasts” for BRT TV in 2014-15 and also gives beginners photography lessons at the Gönyeli Social Activities Centre (SAM).
Her early photographic portfolio of classical and documentary works took an artistic turn from 1997 when her modernist and abstract compositions brought her to the forefront of Cyprus Turkish photography. Özatay’s works include documentary, portrait, travel and street photography and have been widely published, some as cover pictures, in magazines, newspapers, catalogues and brochures or online. Her photographs have been exhibited in international competitions in 52 countries across six continents and she is the first Turkish Cypriot to have won a first prize in South Cyprus. She was awarded the qualification badge in photography in the USA and France in 2014-15. Özatay is also the first female Turkish Cypriot photographer to win a gold medal in her home country and at international photography competitions held by PSA (Photographic Society of America) and FIAP (the International Federation of Photographic Art). She is also one of the first two women to win the AFIAP in 2014 and EFIAP in 2015; photography artist and excellence titles from the organization which has consultative status at UNESCO
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