Emre Caylak is a Turkish American photojournalist based in Istanbul.
Emre covers social and environmental topics around the world. He also works on street photography projects on the side.
"I am a Turkish photojournalist based between Turkey and Ukraine. My work focuses on conflicts, migration and human rights violations around the world.
I started my journalism career covering the Syrian war in 2012. Since then, I have been working with Syrian communities in Turkey, focusing on investigations such as the exploitation of Syrian refugees by the plastics industry.
From 2018 to 2020, I worked in Hawaii, India, China, Sri Lanka, and Nepal, producing stories on human rights violations as well as human-environment interactions driven by various political, social, and cultural processes.
In 2019, I traveled to document Mexico’s vaquita porpoise, the world’s smallest, which was on the verge of extinction.
Since January 2022, I have been covering Ukraine, capturing the buildup to Russia’s war and subsequent invasion focusing on the human cost of the war.
I am a member of Agentur Focus, Germany."
