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Biography | Lalehan Uysal
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LALEHAN UYSAL

Seed Watcher

Credited as creative director, writer, editor, graphic designer in numerous magazines and books, Lalehan Uysal is also an environmental activist who simply describes herself  as a
“Seed Watcher”.  


As one of the founders of Buğday Association for Supporting Ecological Living and Türkiye’s very first ecological market, Bomonti-Feriköy Ecological Farmers Market, she still continues
her projects with Buğday Association, preparing and presenting the ecological podcast series
“From the Buğday Barn to the Worm, Bird and Food”.


Her first macrographic seed photograph exhibition consisting of Anatolian seeds premiered at the prestigious Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery and has since been exhibited in  many different regions in Turkey.

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In order to draw attention to the magical diversity of seeds which are the main subjects of life’s continuity, she passionately photographs, displays andIn order to draw attention to the
magical diversity of seeds which are the main subjects of life’s continuity, she passionately photographs, displays and showcases them.


She dreams of photographing all the seeds of the planet without boundaries just like seeds who know no boundaries.

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Sometimes, in deep silence, I hear the sound of one of the seeds falling onto the ground. The crack of its shell, the crunch of the sprout that extends its neck to the sun...

 

I'm taking pictures of the seed because I can't show the sounds of life. My wish is for their delicate, thin, fragile, volatile, sometimes hard, big or strong, sometimes green, coffee or black hues to be noticed. I want to show that each seed has an incredibly designed, indescribable richness.

 

I believe that the seeds in my photos will bloom in the soil of our soul when they reach our eyes.

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Every time I press the shutter, I repeat the Anatolian man's intention that what he planted when sprinkling seeds on his soil is not only for man, but for all living things; these seeds to the worm, to the bird, for the food... and, adding another word, ‘and for the eye!’

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