Meeting Emine
I got to know Emine and her countless animals during the early spring of 2020. She lives in a cave dwelling in Capadocia, Turkey. Emine learned sheep raising from her ancestors and it is the sole source of her income. Of the shepherds in Turkey, 99% are males. Her income sources are the sale of milk, wool, and butchery animals. I experienced her everyday life; sharing the highs and lows of her solitary and some days lonely existence. There is no running water and electricity is generated by a couple of solar panels hung into the rock face wall. Her name Emine means courageous and trustworthy.
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Biography
Annette Louise Solakoglu is a Swedish-German photographer who lives and works in New York's Hudson Valley and Istanbul, Turkey.
She graduated from the Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany, and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in film production from Boston University, USA. Her award-winning films and photographs have been exhibited and published internationally.
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Awards
Winner, 2020 Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers (curated by Elizabeth Avedon) in the self-portrait and street photography categories. In 2019, Annette won Honorable Mention in the I.P.A. awards (industrial architecture category) as well as the the 13th Pollux International Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography. Her recent series on U.S. gun culture, titled Guns n’Daisies, has been awarded Honorable Mention in the 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers.
