About & Contact

Burak Bulut Yıldırım

Photographer · Contemporary Artist

Berlin- and Istanbul-based photographer. His practice moves between commissioned stills — campaigns, beauty, jewellery, portraiture — and a sustained body of fine-art work shaped by light, form, movement and authored visual tension.

  • Sony Europe Imaging Ambassador
  • Since 2005
  • Berlin / Istanbul
  • BPP
  • RPS
  • IGBK
Burak Bulut Yıldırım, studio portrait.
Biography

A photographic practice shaped by authored direction, lighting control and fine-art depth.

Burak Bulut Yıldırım is a commercial photographer and contemporary artist working between Berlin and Istanbul. Since 2005, he has built a practice spanning campaign stills, beauty, jewellery, portraiture, movement-led image-making, and long-form fine-art series exhibited across Berlin, Istanbul, Zurich, Rome and Barcelona.

Since 2018, he has served as a Sony Europe Imaging Ambassador. Selected features include Sony Alpha Universe and the Sony Alpha Photographers Podcast. Regular project work across Europe and the UK.

Inquiry types

  • Commissions
  • Partnerships
  • Talks
  • Workshops
  • Fine Art & Exhibitions
Recognition

Selected awards

  • 2025Annual Photography Awards — Fine Art
  • 2017International Photography Awards — Honorable Mention, Fine Art
  • 2012International Photography Awards — Honorable Mention, Fine Art
References

Selected features

  • Sony Alpha Universe — editorial features
  • Sony Alpha Photographers Podcast — featured conversation
  • Point Pleasant Publishing — extended editorial
  • Die Akt Galerie Berlin — solo and group exhibitions, 2024–2026
  • Fogae Gallery Zurich — group exhibition, 2025
Fine Art

Part of the same photographic gaze.

A parallel fine-art practice shaped by body, light, material intervention and authored visual tension — exhibited across Berlin, Istanbul, Zurich, Rome and Barcelona. Built through physical, in-camera methods including mirrors, UV-reactive materials, long exposures and material interventions.

The same eye, working without a brief.
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Contact

For commissions, partnerships or production enquiries.

Berlin — working base
Istanbul — working base
Available across Europe and the UK

Fine Art

Series work, exhibitions and the wider artistic archive.

burakbulut.org

LUX Production

Commercial production infrastructure for stills, video and expanded production briefs.

burakbulut.net
Orange Sony Europe Imaging Ambassadors shutter logo on dark background, indicating Burak Bulut Yildirim's expert artist portrait work in Berlin.