Akdeniz Kadın Çalışmaları ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Dergisi

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It is seen that different identities are reproduced and represented through gender, class, ethic and religious identity in every field of art. One of the presentations in the field of documentary photography after 2000, is the presentation of the subaltern both in the world and in Turkey. This study focuses on the social distress and marginalization of the subalterns in their daily lives. Desislava Şenay Martinova's photographs were selected as a singular sample for the study, and more specifically, Martinova's series called Alev Ateş was analyzed in the article.The study, which will read the concept of subaltern as the other by focusing on Spivak's work, while leaning back against the concept of the other. At the same time, how the approach of the photographer in documentary photography to the person/ people she will photograph with the understanding of social documentary photography, makes a change regarding the problems that the photographer deals with or its effect on solving the problems is opened to discussion. As a result, in this study, it was found that being the other of the subaltern was doubled over gender, and the cost of being a woman was higher at the point of the power relationship established by the power. Besides, the importance of the photographer's position during the representation was also revealed.