Stephen Jeremy Maxwell Bray criticised the way manganese workings in the forests at Dereözü, which is near his home, had been executed.
“Whilst it’s possible to photograph anything and make it beautiful”, Bray said, “There’s very little that’s beautiful about the way the trees have been brutalised. They haven’t been cut down, they’ve been crushed with heavy machinery.”
An Exploratory Manganese Working, Dereözü, Turkey.
Bray was speaking on Marmaris, Park FM 100.5 during an interview about a forthcoming exhibition of photographs which features the Dereözü woodlands, as well as images from the Me Marche region of Italy by fellow photographer Michael Eldridge.
You can hear the full interview here. Some parts are in Turkish but the story is pretty clear, no matter which language you speak.
Stephen and Irem Bray discuss ‘Trees and Sky’ with
Necdet Demiray of Marmaris Park FM