Zeynep Demirhan
Visual Content Director
Visual Content Director
I am a Visual Content Director with over five years of experience transforming ideas into compelling visual stories.
Working across branding, production,
and post-production, I merge strategic insight,
cinematic thinking, and AI-powered tools to craft
content that informs, inspires, and endures.
More than visuals,
Narratives that stay.
Experiences that feel.
Stories that speak.
Take your purpose to their feelings.
Cinematic storytelling, designed to connect.
Barnathan Istanbul (Hotel & Restaurant)
- Social Media Contents
Director & Editor : Zeynep Demirhan
Creative Director: Zeynep Demirhan
Camera & Color Grading: Ali Özkul
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NETFLIX, Istanbul Encylopedia 2025
- Making of Documentary
Shooting & Editing: Zeynep Demirhan
Color Grading: Kenan Çekiç
Sound Mixing: PostGarden Studio
Interviews:
Director: Zeynep Demirhan
Production: Emin Kutlu
DOP: Evren Gündoğdu
Camera Assistant: Zahid Candır
Sound Recorder: Özkan Boz
Gaffer: Yusuf Güner
Hair & Make-up: Osman Öztopal
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NETFLIX, Istanbul Encylopedia 2025
- Backstage
Backstage Photographer & Retoucher : Zeynep Demirhan
Adaptation to Relation - A Collective Video-based Exploration, 2024
Experiencing the city through dance performances
Adaptation to Relation, (2024) is a video exhibition featuring various parts from the performance How Now Becomes Then, designed by Şiva Canbazoğlu and İlayda Evgin.
Using the time-integrated urban spaces around Eminönü, Turkey, the exhibition offers an experience that transcends time and space, directed and edited by me. It invites viewers to reflect on the traces we leave behind by exploring the relationship between the city and the body.
Music Clip, Bugra Baran-Entity, 2022
Prague Music Video Awards, 2022
Director: Zeynep Demirhan
Director of Photography: Utku Öztürk
Handy-Cam Operator: Tuğkun Zeroğlu
Art Direction: Keihan Khasmakhi
Video editor: Emre Kurt, Zeynep Demirhan
Coloring: Onagöre
Sound Artist: Bugra Baran
Record Label: Ethereal Future Music
Performance artist: Gizem Seçkin
Ludwig Van Beethoven Cello Sonata No.5 in D Major (Op.102 No.2), Music Clip, 2022
Cello Player: Jülide Canca Eke
Piano Player: Müge Hendekli
Recording, Editing, Miks, Mastering: Pieter Snapper
Director: Zeynep Demirhan
Production: PTOT Film
Production Manager: Türkay Özcan
Director of Photography: Ece Latifoğlu
Camera Assistant: Cem Özakdaş
Gaffer: Adem Demirezen
Key Grip: Altan Çakmak
Editing: Zeynep Demirhan
Colorist: Ecem Gelgeç
Location: MIAM Studio
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As a visual artist, I explore themes of existence, memory, and the dynamic relationships between subjects, urban and landscapes through semi-documentary narratives. Utilizing photography, video, sound, and performance, my works interrogate liminal zones between place and self, where reality and fiction intertwine by incorporating psychogeography.
Zeynep Demirhan
Visual Content Director
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10’ moving image
LaboCine Cosmovision May 25
Continual
Continual, (2025) is a 10-minute video work that explores the physical and mental transformations triggered by fear and panic. Shot in a laboratory setting, it captures a chemical reaction that forms a gel-like substance—metaphorically reflecting the inner shift during a panic attack. For the artist, these moments are linked to societal insecurity, where rising tension causes a disconnection from reality, accompanied by breathlessness, dizziness, and a racing heart.
4’ moving image
Distance
Between Us
The Distance Between Us (2023) is a digital art project that explores self-construction through themes of transition, threshold, and reflection. Using sunlight on water, it creates a hypnotic visual world where surface and depth symbolize the dialogue between external experiences and inner transformation.
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3’ short film
Bilsart, 2025
Dreams of Nowhere
Dreams of Nowhere (2025) , is a 3-minute video exploring settlement and belonging through the relationship between the body, space and city. Filmed in the parking lot of Galeria designed prison-like, Istanbul’s first shopping mall, the video reflects on the mall's history and abandoned state.
Photography Series
Lens Culture
- Artweeks 2024
Simbart Projects
- Beymen Art Collection
- Royal Photographic Society IPE 165
Meronomy
Meronomy (2024), explores the organic connection between the body, animals, and the natural environment through the part-whole relationship in the universe by creating a timeless space that transcends specific locations or moments.
8’ short documentary
Salt Galata
41. Istanbul Film Festival
Ayvalik International Film Festival
33. Ankara Film Festival
30. International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival
41. Istanbul Film Festival
Ayvalik International Film Festival
33. Ankara Film Festival
30. International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival
Faces
When a person begins to lose her memory, does her presence in this world gradually disappear? What will her memories, emotions and feelings happen? Or can this state of forgetfulness be curative for some situations?
Looking for answers to these questions, Faces (2022) short documentary examines the interaction of memory, time and space in a visual context based on the experiences of director’s grandmother who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s 16 years ago.
Photography Series
- Mamut Art Projects 2022
- Art Ankara 2023
There
Drawing on Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the development of our inner world, senses, and perception is only possible through the experience of our environment.
In the photo series titled There, the artist seeks to create a relationship between the body and the camera in her hand, the viewer’s presence in the exhibition space, and their visual perception. By positioning the viewer as if they were the lens, she offers a meditative and ritualistic environmental experience, allowing the audience to feel “there” through witnessing certain moments encountered while walking.
After graduation from the Department of Architecture at TOBB ETU, Zeynep Demirhan completed her master’s thesis in the Department of Cinema and Television at Istanbul Bilgi University.
Her article titled “Urban Environments and Agnès Varda’s Genius loci” co-authored with Kennedy Karpat, was published by Bloomsbury, England in the book “The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda.”
Institutions such as the Sony Photography Awards, Humble Arts Foundation, Lens Culture, the Royal Photographic Society, F-stop Magazine, and LaboCine have recognized her photography and video works.
They have been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Beymen Art Collection, ShopigoArt, Mamut Art Project, Simbart Projects, Base Istanbul, Artweeks Istanbul, and Art Ankara.
In February 2025, she held a solo exhibition titled Anatomy of a Fleeting Rush at Bilsart, a non-profit video exhibition space.
WORKING EXPERIENCES
Creative Lead, Director, Video Editor, Barnathan Istanbul, Social Media Creation 2025
Director, Video Editor, NETFLIX Istanbul Encylopedia Behind-the-scenes Documentary, 2025
Backstage Photographer & Videographer NETFLIX Istanbul Encylopedia TV Series, 2025
Video Editor, Invisible but Perceivable yet Unspokable, Short Dance Film, 2024
Producer Assistant, PTOT Film and Production Studio, 2023
Director, Music Clip Bugra Baran- Entity, 2022
Director, Music Clip, Ludwig Van Beethoven Cello Sonata No.5 in D Major (Op.102 No.2), 2022
EXHIBITIONS
Anatomy of a Fleeting Rush, Solo Exhibition, Bilsart, 2025
Meronomy, Group Exhibition, Simbart Gallery , 2025
Uncanny Thresholds, Minimal Issue F-stop Magazine Group Exhibition, TMMOB Chamber Of Architects Istanbul, 2025 Agenda Photo Contest, 2024
Meronomy, Photography Series, Artweeks Istanbul, X. Edition, 2024
Adaptation to Relation, Video Exhibition, CoBAC Workspace, 2024
Pac-man, Single Image, Venice Biennale, 18th International Architecture Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Venice Turkey Pavilion, 2023
Imprint, Single Image, ShopigoArt Group Exhibition, Tavern/ Istanbul, 2023
There, Photography Series, Group Exhibition, Mamut Art Project, Bomontiada, Istanbul, Art Ankara & Cathan Art Hotel, 2022
Faces, 8’ Short Documentary, Group Exhibition, Base Istanbul, Akaretler, Istanbul, 2022
Labyrinth 3, Group Exhibition, KA Atelier, Ankara, 2019
Representing Itself (Getty Keeping It Modern Project Team), Group Exhibition, METU Faculty of Architecture, Ankara, 2029
AWARDS & SHORTLISTED
Shortlisted, Sony World Photography Awards (Object & Architecture Categories)
Shortlisted, Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition 165,
Shortlisted Prague Music Video Awards 2022, Entity, Bugra Baran Music Clip
Included Beymen Art Collection, Meronomy Photography Series
Short Film Jury in 42. Istanbul Film Festival, Cali Koy Short Film Festival, Altin Safran Documentary Film Fest.
Article about Anatomy of a Fleeting Rush Solo Exhibition
Faces (Short Documentary, 2022) — Screened and won prizes at 15+ national and international festivals including Istanbul Film Festival, Adana Golden Boll, Documentarist.
Featured “Urban Environments and Agnès Varda’s Genius loci” by Demirhan & Kennedy-Karpat article published in “The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda”, Bloomsbury London
ATELIER, WORKSHOP, JURY
Artist, Architectural Mapping | Summer School, TIME³, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2025
Instructor, 212 Photography Festival, Dance/Photography Atelier, Control and Fall, 2024
Director, Istanbul Cinècollective, 2024
Jury 42. Istanbul Film Festival, Short Film Category Jury, 2024
Jury, Cali Koy Short Film Festival, Short Film Category Pre-jury, 2023
Jury, Altin Safran Documentary Film Festival, Short Film Category Jury, 2023
Lecturer, FTV 539 - Filmic Philosophy and Practice, Istanbul Bilgi University, 2023
Lecturer, METU ARCH 190 Model Making Workshop Summer’22 “Presentation on Architectural Model Photography”, 2022
Lecturer, METU ARCH 190 Model Making Workshop Summer’21 “Presentation on Architectural Photography”, 2021
Attendees, Gender Equality and Sustainability: Agnès Varda’s Sustaining Legacy Conference, Istanbul Bilgi University , 2020
PUBLICATIONS
Video, Continual, Labocine, 2025
Article about Anatomy of a Fleeting Rush Solo Exhibition, 2025
Een Magazine, Summer in Stills 2024, Lens Culture, Portfolio, 2024
F-stop Magazine, Minimal Issue Exhibition, 2024
Sony World Photography Awards, 2023
Bloomsbury UK, Article, “Urban Environments and Agnès Varda’s Genius loci” by Demirhan & Kennedy-Karpat, 2022
Manifold Kadraj, Photography series, “Olduğu Yer”, 2022
Times UK, Photography, Sony World Photography Awards 2022