Muharrem PİRE
A novelty in the art of photography. I hope that you have met with this innovation, or you are to discover it soon. The photographs produced with the technique, which Ugur Okcu calls "Scanograph", carry the traces of abstract art; Photographic abstractions. At times, you can pick out the object in the photographs, but more likely, your senses are activated by the musical traces of it. It is almost impossible to perceive these photographs at first sight; they are observed and experienced within their own consecutive stages. You can easily relate to these photographs which are loaded with elements of conception and abstract symbols.
The unique character of these photographs is the co-existence of two ways of perception, both continuous and in time intervals. The impression I get from Ugur Okcu's photographs is that of living through the dynamism of nature in continuously changing influences. The emotional stages one lives through in the face of nature are turned in to a joyful dynamism, resembling mental abstractions. While facing nature, our mental activity never corresponds to the still image of the photography. This is why many are disappointed from the image, taken after a passionate discovery in nature. Possibly, what is impressive in that scene is not the appearance itself; the painter maintains this through abstraction, and so do Ugur's photographs; they capture the essential.
I would also like to make some remarks on other certain characteristics of these works;
- The near impossibility of retakes of the same image due to spontaneity and chance;
- The richness of image possibilities on a single object, to be able to bring in many different dimensions;
- The physical objects transformed into abstract ones, yet still recognizable in full mental communication;
- A new dimension and a new language brought into photography.
Ugur Okcu, never gives up experimenting and producing new projects. He does not settle with an achievement of this sort, even after a painstaking number of years. Already, he has some new ideas for future projects; "This is not only a technical medium or matter of technique.
Muharrem PİRE - PAINTER