Süme puts the everyday and the ordinary at the center with his photography works in his series, Transit. Oscillating in the opaque space between coincidence and fiction, the series explores the aestheticization and (or) dramatization of the everyday and a departure from philosophical questions around representation. Pointing out that taking a photograph is also not taking / showing something / leaving it out of the frame, Süme focuses on the subjects that he has given up on looking at for a long time.
He uses a point-and-shoot camera, which marks a return to the production technique he used when he was beginning to work on lens-oriented works 25 years ago. Trying to take advantage of the possibilities of a compact film machine, the series attempts to establish a language in pursuit of the raw, sincere, and simple, under the influence of poet Ahmet Güntan’s “Particle Ham” manifesto. With his photographs, he deals with the practice of keeping a diary and tries to present them with subtlety, “without blinding the viewer,” in his own words.
Transit series has been chosen among the best photography series at Photo Basel 2023 by the Guardian Newspaper.