The fruit of a six-year quest by Turkish artist Attila Durak, is an arresting photographic journey among the peoples of Turkey and Anatolia. Capturing their faces in a mood of warm rapport, Durak sheds full light on the country’s riches and cultural diversity. The word ‘Ebru’ means ‘marbled paper’. This millennium-old pictorial technique, blending paint and water on paper, evokes infinite creative combinations of these three elements and symbolises both the ebbs and flows of history and the permanence of the colours in all their interwoven hues. This is the image of the peoples of Turkey, who have witnessed these countless movements, whose traces still remain. Deliberately rejecting the notion of minority, the artist has not considered the size of groups through history, which is sometimes but a pale reflection of their actual historical and cultural influence. He primarily emphasises the teeming radiance and the sociological impact of their extraordinary diversity. All of these faces, reaching out to the present and future, thus ‘unlock’ the past of these mixed and cross-bred cultures. Reaching beyond its poetic metaphor, Ebru is therefore a human manifesto on how to respectfully rethink the concept of ‘living together’ in the Turkey of today and tomorrow, and also in the world. Ebru is an important photographic exhibition that was first staged in Turkey and also in the United States, Germany and Switzerland.