Published in Turkish in the e-book compilation Brave New Media (April 2011) by Alternative Informatics Association
Camera had long been deemed as marking a secure and obscene enthusiasm that’s inclined to interesting sights. War photographer journalists whose occupations were deemed sacred were a more specific party exempted from these weaknesses. But the cameras that were turned into a device of action by the people participating in the Arab rebellions of 2011, marks the collapse of both of these privileges. The world approaches a point where we might not need journalists to witness what goes on far away, where we can get out of this sanctity also by all citizens becoming journalists, a point where the camera watching over world streets cease to be an intruding foreign eye to become the world peoples’ own eyes.