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Photo/Film Week 2025
Zonguldak Exhibition Room will hold a new program due to the 35th anniversary of the strike of Zonguldak Coal Basin mine workers.
Entering its 26th year, the Exhibition Room is preparing for the second Photo/Film Week in November and December 2025.Throughout the week , there will be photo exhibitions and shows, an archive exhibition consisting of printed materials such as magazines/newspapers/posters. In the section on migration to Germany, films by Director Fatih Akın will be shown.
The event, which was first held last year, was prepared for the 40th anniversary of the 84/85 long strike of the coal workers in Britain (England) and the 34th anniversary of the 90/91 long strike of the coal miners in the Zonguldak (Turkey) Coal Basin. The program was dedicated to the memory of the coal workers' writer İrfan Yalçın and the painter Nedim Günsür, who is remembered as a naive friend of the mine workers.On November 30, 1990, mine workers organized in the General Mining Labor Union (GMİS) went on strike.This year's program was dedicated to the memory of Tankut Öktem, the Sculptor of the Zonguldak Miner's Monument, and the recently deceased Photographer Sebastião Salgado.
The manager of the Exhibition Room , photographer İbrahim Akyürek, stated in his call for the week preparations that they wanted to establish a voluntary cultural bridge led by citizens between the coal basins of the world. He explained that they expected event support for their programs from individuals, communities and organizations that embrace the combative labor culture experienced in different basins ( Germany, Netherlands, Britain, Belgium, Slovakia, Ukraine etc.) .
F: Ibrahim Akyurek
