Yasemin Demirözcan (b. 2000) is a self-taught photographer and creative director with a background in sociology and visual anthropology. Moving between multiple cultural and social landscapes, her work emerges from the tensions and translations that shape diasporic experience. Through intimate visual narratives, she centers lives and perspectives that are often obscured or overlooked. Photography, for her, is a space of encounter, a way to witness, question, and reimagine.
Alongside her documentary work, Yasemin brings this perspective into fashion and editorial projects. Her interest lies in how people express who they are, how they carry themselves, and how image-making can hold both beauty and truth.
In 2025, she was awarded De Beeldmakers prize, a recognition that marks both her commitment to storytelling and her vision of photography as a site of presence, resonance, and possibility.
Clients and publications include Fonds Kwadraat, FOAM, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, Melkweg, Open Space Contemporary Art Museum, PF Magazine, Paradiso, Volkskrant, Het Parool, VIEWPOINT Colour Magazine, HTIB, WAR CHILD, CataWiki, TicketSwap, BO Diversity, Podium Mozaïek, Municipality of Vlaardingen and Frascati Theater.
Exhibitions and publications
2025 – Group exhibition, Melkweg Expo, Netherlands
2025 – Solo exhibition, Straatintimidatie, Netherlands
2025 – Group exhibition, Amazigh Festival, Netherlands
2025 – VIEWPOINT Colour Magazine, Worldwide
2024–2025 – Solo exhibition, Taboe Tabee, Netherlands
2024–2025 – Solo exhibition, 50 jaar HTIB en 60 jaar Turkse migratie, Netherlands
2024 – Group exhibition, ICOON, Netherlands
2024 – Solo exhibition, RRReuring, Netherlands
2024 – Solo exhibition, The Essence of Self Expression, Netherlands
2023 – Group exhibition, Tittyversary, Netherlands
2023 – Group exhibition, From Necessity Comes Creativity, Netherlands
2023 – Group exhibition, Empowering the voices of Amsterdam’s youth through photography, Netherlands
2023 – Group exhibition, Groeipijn, Netherlands
2023 – Residency, Dichter Bij Huis, Netherlands
2022–2023 – Group exhibition, HA!RPOWER, Netherlands