Kent Heykelleri - Ankara Heykelleri

Umut Erhan
Umut Erhan was born on May 9, 1978 in Konya, Turkey. He attended Konya Private Gündoğdu School before receiving his undergraduate degree from Konya Meram Science High School in 1995.That Year he attended Ankara Medicine Faculty an graduated in 2004. He is still studying in Hacettepe University Social Sciences Institute management of medical establishments department as a graduate student.

He developed his project named Kentheykelleri.com in January 2007 as Ankara sculptures as a Web site on internet and later on he expanded this project by meeting Haldun Cezayirlioğlu coincidentally and turned it into a photography exhibition and later on a catalogue book project. As an amateur photographer his first exhibition about this project was placed in Çankaya municipality contemporary arts centre, Ankara.

Haldun Cezayirlioğlu
Haldun Cezayirlioğlu was born in 1957 in a city named Demirci in Manisa ,Turkey. He finished his primary and high school education in 1975 with being graduated from Demirci İlk Öğretmen School. He gave a break to his working life at the same year he started as a primary school teacher after the exam he took that time’s university exam. He was graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences Press and Information department as a graduate student in 1979. He started to work as a clerk in a head office depends on the ministry of nutrition agriculture and livestock. After resigned from this job he worked as a reporter for various local newspapers in Ankara. He worked as a teacher for 2 years at various schools at ankara and Gaziantep because of compulsory service. After these 2 years he assigned to the press and information department which is related to the office of Prime ministry as a publication custodian and he worked there between 1984 and 1986 and he contributed to the publishing of many publications. At the same years he was also in charge of preparing and publishing a desk calender named ‘Turkey Calendar’ whose aim was to introduce Turkey to the world and who was prepared in 5 different languages with many pages and lots of photos.

He worked as the administrative officer at various associations and foundations. Still he is a member of “Collectioners association” and administrative board of  faculty of communications graduates.

He has 2 works published named ‘Manisa Almanak ve Manisalanmak” and ” Nasuh Matrakçı Minyatürlerinde XVI. Yüzyıl Osmanlı Seferleri”. He has also still researchs about village institutes and islamic astronomy.