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Rena Effendi (born April 26, 1977) is an
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Effendi has also produced stories in Chernobyl after the nuclear disaster of 1986,
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Her work has also been shown at the
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Effendi, Rena Azerbaijani photographers Living people 1977 births Artists from Baku Azerbaijan University of Languages alumni 21st-century Azerbaijani women artists 21st-century women photographers
Rena Effendi (born April 26, 1977) is an Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...
i freelance photographer. Her work focuses on themes of environment, post-conflict society, the effects of oil industry on people, and social disparity. As of 2019, she is based in Istanbul
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, Turkey
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Life
Effendi was born April 26, 1977, in Baku. She studied at the Azerbaijan State Institute of Languages. Effendi began photographing in 2001 and became a full-time photographer in 2005 after quitting her job as an Economic Development Specialist at theUnited States Agency for International Development
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. With a budget of over $27 b ...
in Baku. Effendi's first monograph ''Pipe Dreams'', published by Mets & Schilt, focuses on how the oil industry effected the lives of ordinary citizens in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey along the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline
The Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is a long crude oil pipeline from the Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. It connects Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan and Ceyhan, a port on the south-easter ...
. She initially got a commercial assignment from BP, the oil consortium that operates this pipeline from Azerbaijan via Georgia to the southern Turkish port of Ceyhan. While photographing this promotional material, she discovered that just a small percentage of urban population in her country is benefiting from the oil boom. Over the course of 6 years this work was turned into ''Pipe Dreams''.Prince Claus Fund (2011biography
Effendi has also produced stories in Chernobyl after the nuclear disaster of 1986,
transgender
A transgender (often abbreviated as trans) person is someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Many transgender people experience dysphoria, which they seek to alleviate through ...
people in Istanbul, village life in Khinalug
Khinalug, Khynalyg, or Khinalyg ( az, Xınalıq; Khinalug: ''Kətş''; also rendered as Khanaluka, Khanalyk, Khinalykh, or Khynalyk), is an ancient Caucasian village going back to the Caucasian Albanian period. It is located high up in the mounta ...
, the Russia–Georgia war
The 2008 Russo-Georgian WarThe war is known by a variety of other names, including Five-Day War, August War and Russian invasion of Georgia. was a war between Georgia, on one side, and Russia and the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics of Sou ...
of 2008, life of youth in Tehran, Russia, Cairo and Afghanistan. She published this work in 2010 by the title of ''Chernobyl: Still Life in the Zone.'' In the work she decided to showcase peoples life in the zone instead of a memento.
Her work has been published in the '' International Herald Tribune'', ''Newsweek
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'', ''Financial Times
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'', ''Time Magazine
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'', '' National Geographic'', '' Marie Claire'', ''Courrier International
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'', ''Le Monde
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'' and '' L'Uomo Vogue''.Institute Artistsbiography
Her work has also been shown at the
Saatchi Gallery
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in London, Aperture Gallery in New York, Istanbul Modern, Venice Biennial
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and Art Basel
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.
Publications
*''USAID Azerbaijan: From relief to development.'' Baku: USAID/Caucasus Azerbaijan, c2003. *''Pipe Dreams: A Chronicle of Lives along the Pipeline.'' Amsterdam: Mets & Schilt, 2009. , on Swiss exhibitions in 2009 **''Pipe dreams. Eine Chronik des Lebens entlang der Pipeline.'' Bern: Benteli, 2009. . **''Las quimeras del petróleo: la vida cerca del oleoducto.'' Barcelona: Blume, 2009. . ** Линия Жизни. Moskva: Izdateli L. Gusev i M. Sidorenko, 2009. . *''Liquid Land.'' Amsterdam: Schilt, 2012. . **''Land ohne festen Boden. Die vergessenen Menschen von Baku.'' Bern: Benteli, 2012. . ** Жидкая земля. Moskva: Treemedia, 2012. .Awards
Effendi has won the Fifty Crows Documentary Award, theMario Giacomelli
Mario Giacomelli (1 August 1925 – 25 November 2000) was an Italian photographer and photojournalist in the genre of humanism.
Biography
Giacomelli was born in the sea-port town of Senigallia in the Marche region of Italy into a family of modes ...
Memorial Award and the Getty Images Editorial Grant.
In 2008, ''National Geographic Magazine
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'' honored her with an All Roads Photography Award, in 2009 she received the Young Photographer in the Caucasus Award, and in 2011 she won a Prince Claus Award.Prince Claus FundAwards of 2011
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References
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*Video interview
{{DEFAULTSORT:Effendi, Rena Azerbaijani photographers Living people 1977 births Artists from Baku Azerbaijan University of Languages alumni 21st-century Azerbaijani women artists 21st-century women photographers