Turkish photographer, new player and translator
Ömer Saruhanlıoğlu was born in Turkey in 1960 and first began taking photos using analog cameras in the 80’s. In his younger days, he participated in the Mevlevi Sufi order and performed ritual Sema (whirling).
He is passionately in love with the “ney” flute, the key instrument in the Mevlevi order and tradition, because it was referred to by the great Sufi Master Rumi at the beginning of his epic poem, the Mathnawi. After almost forty years, Omer is still looking for that ‘sound’, as the greatest living ney master once said.
As well as doing photography, Omer translates books from English into the Turkish language on subjects on Sufism by the author William Chittick.
