The Limits of Visibility

This project explores how photography constructs visibility rather than simply recording the world. Mountains are approached not as landscapes, but as surfaces that interrupt vision, define the horizon, and reveal the limits of what can be seen.

The Limits of Visibility

Photography is often understood as a medium that makes the world visible. This project begins from the opposite premise: every photograph is also a mechanism of exclusion. Visibility is produced not only by what is recorded, but also through framing, distance, and the orientation of the gaze. Rather than simply representing the world as it is, photography functions as a mode of production that determines what becomes visible.

This project does not seek to document mountains. Here, the mountain is neither a landscape motif nor an aesthetic object. Instead, it is approached as a surface that interrupts vision, establishes the horizon, and defines the boundaries of the image. Each photograph examines the relationship between what is visible and what is left outside the frame.

The work was produced in the mountainous geography of Kurdistan. Within this landscape, mountains are photographed not merely as physical formations, but as elements that direct the gaze and define the limits of visibility.