Ugur Umay

Ugur Umay started his art career at a very young age thanks to his family’s artistic background. With the support of his musician father, he completed his musical education at Ankara (Turkey) on Drum, Percussion Instruments and Jazz Music.

In the field of visual arts, which he started at an early age in parallel with his musical life, he worked in charcoal painting, caricature, calligraphy, and typography and has won degrees in numerous competitions. His photographic adventure began in 2005. And he has taken part in over 30 group exhibitions as well as solo exhibitions Digital Art works. His works in this field are included in the collections and archives of many art galleries across Europe and his interactive projects include examples of digital interpretations and the shaping of photography altogether.

Ugur has written articles on photography and travel for many magazines and is an artist who has come to the fore with his Panoramas. He took part in seminars and gave talks in many universities, associations and organizations. His deep interest in the digital aspect of photography led him to focus on GigaPixel, 360° Virtual Tour, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Metaverse works.

He has produced numerous promotional films, music clips and experimental films. He is the founder of C41 Production company which has offices in both Turkey and Germany and he is a Sony Europe Imaging Ambassador.