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

Their most recent solo shows include 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 until recently displayed 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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News:

Barbara and Zafer Baran will be showing selected works from their two most recent projects – Turner's View and Star Drawings – in their forthcoming solo show at England & Co, in February 2011.

Turner's View has been nominated for this year's Prix Pictet.

A special limited-edition portfolio of prints fromTurner’s View was completed earlier this year. Copies have been acquired by Tate Britain and the V&A.

As one of the events organised around the exhibition Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum this winter, Barbara and Zafer Baran will be demonstrating and talking about their camera-less work at the museum on Wednesday 24 November (Digital Studio, Sackler Centre, 13.00-16.00; free, drop-in). Visit the V&A website for further information.