TİLBE ÇAKIR
MANIFESTO
Water is the first home of humanity.
It is the element that carries seventy percent of our bodies, surrounds us at the moment of birth, and is engraved into the deepest layers of our memory.
Within water, in our purest form, we are cleansed of our identities, roles, and masks.
Here, with a bare and unresisting existence, our bodies return to their memory.
But when we leave the water—when we step out of the comfort zone—we confront the weight of the world.
The “Out of Comfort Zone” series is a journey within this duality:
To dissolve into the element we were born in, and to emerge from it to become human again.
Water, which confronts us with our freest, most vulnerable, and most authentic selves, is both our comfort and our limit.
And perhaps stepping out of the comfort zone means returning to water—or leaving it to bear the weight of existence.
Out of Comfort Zone III
70x110cm
C-Print Fuji Crystal Archive Pearl (Metallic) Paper
DIFOPLEX
5 Edition
2.750€
Out of Comfort Zone II
60x60cm
C-Print Fuji Crystal Archive Matte Paper
FRAME
5 Edition
2.000€
Out of Comfort Zone I
60x60cm
C-Print Fuji Crystal Archive Matte Paper
FRAME
5 Edition
2.000€
Tilbe Çakır is a multidisciplinary artist and photographer based in Istanbul. With a background in Interior Architecture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, she blends her understanding of visual aesthetics and spatial perception with the intuitive power of photography.
At the heart of her practice lies the unscripted moment. Çakır believes that beauty exists not only in extraordinary instances but in every fragment of life. Through her lens, she captures the raw poetry of daily flow, revealing the subtle dialogue between human presence and nature.
Constantly traveling, she draws inspiration from her journeys, creating works that are both personal visual diaries and universal explorations of existence.
With her multidisciplinary approach, Çakır nourishes different creative fields while holding a core belief: the human eye is the most powerful camera we are given—to perceive more clearly, to notice amidst the chaos, and to render the unseen visible.