Listen to the silent screams...

Üsküdar University Vocational School of Health Services Child Development Program and Child Protection and Care Services Program opened a solo exhibition of Photographer K. Deniz Kalaycı on "World Children's Rights Day". Stating that sometimes children, women and people cannot express some words with screams, Kalaycı said that as photographers, they express some words with photographs, and each of them turns into a silent scream.

Üsküdar University Advisor to the Rector Prof. Mehmet Zelka, Director of Vocational School of Health Services Prof. Mesut Karahan, Head of Child Development Program of Vocational School of Health Services Müge Çolakoğlu Özer and Deputy Director of Vocational School of Health Services Asst. Prof. Feride Kulalı Özdek visited the exhibition.

"We wanted to draw attention to children's rights"

In the exhibition organized to raise awareness of children's rights and to draw attention to children's fundamental rights such as living, shelter, health and protection, Photographer K. Deniz Kalaycı stated that "On the occasion of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the United Nations General Assembly, the 20th day of November is celebrated as 'World Children's Rights Day' every year. Although many norms and mechanisms have been implemented at the universal and regional level with the aim to protect and strengthen children's rights, unfortunately, thousands of children around the world lose their lives due to hunger, health problems and wars. In recent days, more than four thousand children have been killed in Israeli attacks in Palestine alone."

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"The photos we take turn into silent screams"

Mentioning that people cannot express some words with screams; however, in the language of the art of photography, those photographs turn into silent screams, K. Deniz Kalaycı said that "Beyond being a photographer and a professor, there is something that I always say and defend as a mother. Sometimes, we tell some words that children, women and people cannot express with screams in the language of the art of photography, and the photos we take turn into silent screams. I wish you to listen to the silent screams in the photographs in our exhibition, and I wish all children in the world, who deserve the best of everything, to lead a healthy, happy, peaceful and successful life."

The exhibition awaits its visitors in the Çarşı Campus Lobby area between November20-30.
 

Üsküdar News Agency (ÜNA)