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Hi! My name is Zeren Badar. I'm a NYC based emerging photographer. Originally I'm from Turkey. I bought my first DSLR camera in January 2010. It was an impulse purchase. After being in fashion business for 18 years, I thought photography would be an outlet for my creativity. I was so excited. All those years I went to museums and art galleries. It seemed so easy to take photographs. You would think so too right!!—It was NOT easy!! The beginning was frustrating. When I bought a camera I had no idea what aperture or shutter speed was. I was thinking when I clicked the button all my pictures would turn out museum-worthy!! They were so bad. They were either over exposed or muddy. Even worse they were generic snap shots.Immediately I signed up for a nine weeks photography course at the least expensive place I could find. I also started reading photography books religiously. I realized this photography business was so deep. It took me really long time to get aperture and shutter speed combination straight. And then I started giving attention to composition, lines and mood. Understanding light came later. I was so amazed to see how light could enrich a photograph. I’m still learning and practicing every day. Every emerging artist, I'm having trouble to create my first exhibition. Hoping some day I will break through obstacles and achieve my dream.zeren.badar_yahoo.com
INVASION 
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Swimmers -
jewelery -
Sisters -
happy times -
red lips -
bikini team -
Happy July 4th -
exhaustion -
father and son -
peeking -
necklace -
mona lisa. -
Looking like lost -
coco sailor -
lady gaga -
ribbon -
king -
Judging -
Mr USA -
youth -
washington -
bearded lady
INVASION
During the summer of 1976, a restaurant in Fire Island Pines, New York, denied entry to a visitor in drag named Terry Warren. Fire Island Pines is a beach community on Fire Island east of New York City with a gay majority population that was at the time more conservative than the population of nearby Cherry Grove. When Warren's friends in Cherry Grove heard what had happened, they too dressed up in drag, and, on July 4, 1976. They sailed to the Pines by ferry. The boatload of drag queens that stormed into the Pines that day to a surprised but exuberant welcome was the first "invasion," an event now repeated each year.This summer was 35th anniversary of INVASION. I loved the energy of the event. Gays, lesbians, drag queens, straights, young & old people got together for couple of hours and showed each other friendship, tolerance and love. All of these feelings created emotional link with subjects. Space was extremely crowded. Getting so close to subject allowed me to create compressed style to emphasize the claustrophobic feeling on my photographs. Wide lens (16mm) exaggerated the forms which shows influence from German- Expressionism. Unusual cropping/framing of photographs permit viewers use their imaginations. Venue photographs were taken has burned down to ground recently This tragic event made images historic, This project "Invasion" was featured on two prominent photography blogs--- aCruator & La Lettre de la Photographie.http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/3913/ http://www.acurator.com/blog/2011/07/zeren-badar-invasion.html
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