Nazlı Yıldırım

Biyografi

Based in Ireland, I am an Ankara-born artist, filmmaker, and writer working across photography, film, and text. With a background in literature, education, and editorial work, my practice examines how class, culture, gender, and family dynamics shape society.

Through a personal lens, my projects address cultural identity, discrimination, and LGBTI+ lived experiences. I am the author of the novel Rosa: A Mad Wonder (Anima Publishing), the photo diary You Are The Salt Of The Earth (Lando Publishing), and the photobook I'm in Trouble With You (Onagöre Publishing).

My short film was screened at the PRISMA Queer Film Festival in Ireland, and my work continues to be featured in Irish queer photography magazines and international publications. Selected as a FUTURES Photography Talent by PhotoIreland, I am also a recipient of the 2026 Mayo County Council Artist Bursary Award. My practice continues to explore intersecting themes of memory, identity, and belonging.

Biyografiyi Gör

TR-IE 2021-2025

İsimsiz - Anonymous

With her series Anonymous Nazli Yildirim uses photography to communicate the inner experience of embodiment, but her dark images suggest that this can sometimes be an uncomfortable one. We don’t always feel at ease in or with our own bodies. This sense of discomfort comes across in how Yildirim compares the surfaces of her own body to the damaged surfaces of walls and trees, many of which resemble wounds or orifices.

This feeling doesn’t occur in isolation from within; rather it is shaped by how we are perceived by others, reflecting the value placed on certain bodies or identities that are treated as the norm. There are times when women’s bodies, queer bodies, bodies of the ‘other’ in whatever form, might as well be invisible. The title of Yildirim’s work indicates an erasure, one that can leave us without the anchor of a self or an identity. To be made anonymous is to be reduced to a body, without a name or a place in the world.

Yet there is a kind of freedom in acknowledging that the expectations placed on ourselves and our physical forms are not always right for us. What looks like disconnection here – the broken surfaces, the solitary figures turning in on themselves – can also be understood as an opportunity for growth by different means, arising from an embrace of discomfort and the realities of being a particular body, a transformation Yildirim proposes in the fractured landscape evoked by these images.

TR 2023

Seninle Başım Dertte - I_m in Trouble With You

IE 2025 - Ongoing..

Look At Me! Who Am I_

The Fire Within Me Burns My Body!

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Group/Solo Exhibitions and Features:

2026 Ballina Film Festival, The Unfinished Photo, Offical Selection, Ballina, IE

2026, ArtHouse LGBTI+ Centre, The Fire Within Me Burns My Body!, Dublin, IE

2026, ÍOVA Collective, Human Touch, REDS Gallery, Group Exhibition, Dublin, IE

2026, Ballina Library, I Am Here, Duo Exhibition, Ballina, IE

2025, Abhainn Studio, Group Exhibiton, Sligo, IE

2025, Luan Gallery, Group Exhibiton, Athlone, IE

2025, Priosma Queer Film Festival, Rosa: A Mad Wonder, Offical Selection, Cork, IE

2025, Black&Brown Femme Film Festival, Rosa: A Mad Wonder, Finalist, Chicago, US

2024, BursaPhotoFest, Urban Defiance, Group Exhibition, Bursa, TR

2024, Kinsale Library, Winter in Kinsale, IE

2024, Photo Museum Ireland, Skin/Deep: Perspectives On The Body, IE

2024, The People’s Museum Of Limerick, Great Queen, IE

2024, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Surreal Exhibition, UK

2023, NOCTURNE, I’m In Trouble With You, Curated by FemLENS, Estonia

2019, BOYSAN’S HOUSE, 1+1 We Are Strong Together!, Istanbul, TR

Workshops and Residencies:

2023, Ali Taptik, Photograph: Concepts, Techniques, Tools, Istanbul, TR

2019, Ka Workshop, Darkroom Education, Ankara, TR

2019, Ankara Photography Artists Association, Photography Education, Ankara, TR

2018, Ka Workshop, Theory and Project, Ankara, TR

Selected Press, Publications, and interviews:

2026, Sin Scéal Eile, Irish Independent Interview, Dublin, IE

2026, You Are The Salt of The Earth, Lando Publishing, Istanbul, TR

2026, The Library Project, Book Launch, I’m in Trouble With You, Dublin, IE

2026, Lesbian Art Circle, Vol. V, Untitled, London, UK

2026, Heretic Pride Magazine, Look At Me! Who Am I?, Limerick, IE

2025, Futures Talent Artist, Photo Ireland, Dublin, IE

2025, Lesbian Art Circle, Vo. IV, Self-portrait, London, UK

2024, Temple Bar Gallery + Studio, Great Queen, Dublin, IE

2024, Trans Limerick Community, Where is Our Light?, Limerick, IE

2024, Anima Publisher, Rosa: A Mad Wonder!, Istanbul, TR

2024, Good Day Cork Magazine, Spring, Cork, Ireland

2023, Queer, Body and Love, (in process), Athlone, Ireland

2023, Onagore Publisher, I’m In Trouble With You, Photobook, Istanbul, TR

2023, Artful Living, An Interview by Begum Kaki, Istanbul, TR

2023, Velvele, An Interview by Ilker Hepkaner, Istanbul, TR

2023, Kaos GL, An Interview by Asli Alpar, Ankara, TR

2021, FAIL BOOKS, Anonymous, Photozine, Istanbul, TR