Barbara and Zafer Baran live and work in London, and have been collaborating as photographic artists since the early 1980s, when they met at Goldsmiths College. They have exhibited in Britain, France, America, Turkey and Israel, and their work is held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), National Media Museum (Bradford), Tel Aviv Museum of Art and others.

Solo shows include, among others,Turner's View / Star Drawings (England & Co, London 2011), The Garden of Earthly Delights (Borusan Center for Culture and Arts, Istanbul 2005, in conjunction with 9th International Istanbul Biennial), and Ephemera and The Flower Cabinet (Blue Gallery, London, 2003 and 2004). Their first collaborative solo show, Turkish Portraits, was held at the Photographers’ Gallery, London in 1988.

In 2004 they took part in the major international exhibition Rose c’est la vie: On Flowers in Contemporary Art, at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, alongside artists including Marc Quinn, Jeff Koons, Fischli & Weiss, Wolfgang Tillmans, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nobuyoshi Araki, Anya Gallaccio, Andy Warhol and Thomas Struth. A selection of their Ephemera pieces was displayed between 2005 and 2008 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, as part of Camera-less Photography: Recent Gifts to the V&A Collection, alongside works by Susan Derges and Garry Fabian Miller.

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A small selection from Barbara and Zafer Baran's recent series Star Drawings will be appearing in the group show Flux, Flow, Flight: Art in Motion at Orleans House Gallery, London, from 8 October 2011 to 22 January 2012. Two of their Turner's View works will be included in Fields of Vision: Landscapes Past and Present, also at Orleans House (28 January-25 March 2012).

Above: Moon Drawing 3292, 2010; Star Drawing 7012, 2010.

One of the Barans' camera-less photographs, from the Flower Cabinet series, is included in the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibit Picturing Plants: Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration. The exhibit continues till 25 September 2011.

A second of their camera-less works appeared in the recent exhibit A History of Camera-less Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where the artists also gave a talk on their photographic practice. The display “explored the camera-less image from its discovery in the 1850s to the present day. Drawing together unique examples from the V&A collection this display showcased the work of the key figures in the history of photography, including Anna Atkins, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy.” The exhibit ran in conjunction with Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography.

Turner's View was nominated for the Prix Pictet 2010. A special limited-edition portfolio of prints fromTurner’s View was completed last year. Copies have been acquired by Tate Britain and the V&A.