Selçuk Demirel




  • Man on a Beach

    Book 1998
    Books, Collaborations, Drawing, Selçuk Demirel, Turkey

    Man on a Beach by John Berger (text) and Selçuk Demirel (illustrations), first edition in 1998.
    A man sitting at his desk dreams of the beach… He looks beyond the shore, the sea, the horizon: hand in hand with the stars, he draws on the sky. From his apartment filled with books, he tries to reach the world of dreams… Selçuk Demirel invites the reader into his imaginary world, floating like a poem. And …
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  • Cataract

    Book 2012
    Books, Collaborations, Drawing, Painting, Selçuk Demirel, Turkey

    Cataract by John Berger (text) and Selçuk Demirel (illustrations), first edition in 2012.
    What happens when an art critic loses some of his sight to cataracts? What wonders are glimpsed once vision is restored? In this impressionistic essay written in the spirit of Montaigne, John Berger records the effects of cataract removal operations on each of his eyes. With words by John Berger and beautiful illustrat…
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  • Smoke

    Book 2016
    Books, Collaborations, Drawing, Selçuk Demirel, Turkey

    Smoke by John Berger (text) and Selçuk Demirel (illustrations), first edition in 2016.
    John Berger, long-time smoker, joins forces again with Turkish writer and illustrator Selçuk Demirel in an unexpected pictorial essay.
    Once upon a time, men, women and (secretly) children smoked.
    This charming pictorial essay reflects on the cultural implications of smoking, and suggests, through a series of bri…
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  • What Time Is It?

    Book 2018
    Books, Collaborations, Drawing, Selçuk Demirel, Turkey

    What Time Is It? edited by Maria Nadotti with John Berger’s texts and Selçuk Demirel’s illustrations, first edition in 2018.
    This is a playful meditation on the illusory nature of time. Our perception of it assumes a uniform and ceaseless passing of hours, but Berger suggests that it is turbulent. It expands and contracts according to the intensity of the lived moment. In this beautiful essay in picture…
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JOHN BERGER

Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.

He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.

Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.