Born in 1978, Nadir Buçan is a documentary photographer and academic. He completed his undergraduate studies at Ankara University Faculty of Communication and earned his Ph.D. in Basic Communication Sciences from Atatürk University. Since 2011, he has been living in Van, a city in eastern Turkey, where he works as an associate professor at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, Faculty of Fine Arts, teaching courses in photography and cinema.
Buçan has been producing photographic work since 1999. His practice spans both academic and artistic domains, with a strong emphasis on rural life, space, memory, and the evolving boundaries of documentary photography. His photographs have been exhibited in cities such as New York, Paris, London, Barcelona, Berlin, and Beijing, and published in various national and international media, including China Newsweek, LensCulture, Kwerfeldein, Tutti Fotografi, Ignant, Les Others, La Fotografia, My Modern Met, Plain Magazine, WePresent, and Tous les Jours Curieux.
In 2017, he was listed among the “10 Turkish Photographers to Know” by Culture Trip magazine. His book Post-Documentary Photography: The Changing Boundaries of Documentary Photography, published by Espas Publications in 2020, explores the impact of postmodern and poststructuralist theory on documentary photography and how these frameworks have transformed the practice itself.
Buçan's work frequently focuses on rural life, space, memory, and the documentary boundaries of photography.
