Suzan Orhan (b. 1971, Artvin, Turkey) is an Associate Professor at Sakarya University and photographer, based in Turkey. She graduated from Ege University, Journalism department in 1995. She completed her master’s degree in 2004 at deu gse department of photography with her thesis titled ithe construction of meaning in early 20th century american straight photography”. She has also worked theoretically on “Photographic Representation Fact and the Aestheticization of War Within Contemporary Photography” as Ph.D thesis at DEU GSE (2011).

She has published articles, papers, and a book chapter about photography. She has theoretical and practical studies in the fields of street, documentary, portrait, and design photography. Some of her published articles are; “sublime (!) America in stieglitz’s photographs” (Dogu Bati Magazine, 2005), “the aestheticization of reality in the photographic record of war” (Sanat ve Hayat, 2007), “photo-noir emerging in weegee’s photographs” (Fotomat e magazine, 2007), “war, the black stain of man, traces in stanley greene’s war photographs” (Fotomat e magazine, 2008), “significant absence” (culture, 2014), “photographic image of contemporary megacity and its periphery” (yedi̇, 2016), “use of ready-images in contemporary photography” (Sanat yazilari, 2019), and “street photography as document of visual aesthetics of social change” (Sanat, 2020). Conference presentations are “from reality to fiction, from fiction to market: the productions of contemporary photographers in the field of visual communication design” (İstanbul, 2019) and “legacy to digital photography from the bauhaus school: new vision” (istanbul, 2020). Book chapter is “new objectivity and new vision effects in irena blühuvá’s social documentary photographs” (Post Fotograf, 2022).

She creates her photographic projects on representation, memory, migration, everyday life, and the human condition. Her solo exhibitions are titled Today (İzmir, 2008), Nature mort (Bursa, 2014), Lifelike (İstanbul, 2015), Refugees (İzmir, 2015), Cross the Street (Sakarya, 2018), and The Street From Inside to Outside (Bursa, 2020).