Uğur is a photographer who lives in Istanbul, Turkey and is 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, he wants to demonstrate the contrasts between the two different worlds we live in.
He said to Bored Panda, “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 go to Europe.
I think we don’t know anything about war, famine, etc. Today, you may be peaceful, but as long as these problems continue, you will be exposed to these problems. As an artist, I believe that art is the master of all languages. For long, art has been used to create awareness that helps in awakening the communities.
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“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, peace and waste, but I would like to remind them that people in the underdeveloped countries live in pain, hunger and war.
I also wanted to remind the underdeveloped countries that they could find a better government and education and they can be as strong and peaceful as the developed countries. I want to show the problems of the modern world, greed, injustice.
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Below are some of his works to show his intense support from around the world.
#1. Venezuela
During the government protest in Venezuela, the protesters were tried to destroy a police motorcycle and the gas tank exploded. He survived the incident with first- and second-degree burns. Photo: Ronaldo Schemidt
#2. Chad
#3. Afghanistan
An Afghan woman sits next to a wounded child after receiving treatment at Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital after a powerful truck bomb attack in Kabul on January 15, 2019.
#4. Everywhere
Luxury consumption on the one hand, and poverty on the other. Rohingya refugees. Photo: Allison Joyce
#5. Iraq
American soldiers torturing prisoners of war at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
#6. Iraq
American soldiers torturing prisoners of war at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
#7. Iraq
Photo: Sean Smith
#8. Afghanistan
Najiba holds her nephew Shabir (2), who was injured in a bomb blast that killed his sister, in Kabul, Afghanistan, in March 2016. The bomb exploded in a relatively peaceful part of Kabul while Shabir’s mother was walking the children to school. Photo: Paula Bronstein
#9. Iraq
Photo: Odd Andersen
#10. Atomic Bomb
#11. Untitled
#12. Syria
Photo: Nazeer Al-Khatib
#13. Syria
Photo: Ammar Sulaiman
#14. Libya
Photo: Chris Hondros
#15. Syria
It is ridiculous to expect a future full of peace and love from generations that have never lived. Photo: Yasin Akgül
#16. Focus
#17. Yemen
Child marriage is common in many countries of the world. Not only in backward countries but also in developed countries. Sample: U.S. Photo: Stephanie Sinclair
#18. Afghanistan
Afghan child works at a coal yard in Jalalabad. Photo: Noorullah Shirzada