Göksin. Just saying his name, I’m overhwhelmed by a surge memories and anecdotes. It’s difficult to choose among all these stories that meant so much in our lives...Let’s begin with his allure. He was tall, slender, majestic in his red scarf. At 6’3”, he inspired respect immediately...

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I wish I could find the words to talk about Göksin. But talking about a person who was at the same time a boss, a visionary, a mentor, a confident, a friend even perhaps a sort of father….is not an easy thing. In fact, I doubt I can do it.

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He made me take pictures, but I’m still not sure how. The people here from the SIPA photo lab can tell you: A pig could take better pictures than me. He said he lived on the Champs Elysées. And that was true. The building was on the avenue, but he lived in the maid’s quarters on th...

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The Funeral Service for Göksin Sipahioglu was held on Monday, October 10 in Istanbul. Photographer Alfred Yaghobzadeh was there and sent us his pictures, along with a text by his son Raphaël, also a disciple of Göksin. You can read his article in the French version of La Lettre.

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We are all here, your nieces and nephews – and those who couldn’t be present are also paying their homage to you by working. Of course, I am sad, like Phyllis, like all of us, not to see you any more, but I am not crying for you – you had such a beautiful life!

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Göksin will be for all of us the sun of our early years. This sentence is from Alain Mingan, he knew and worked for the three mystical French Photo agencies of the 70's: Sipa, Gamma and Sigma. You can read in the French version of LaLettre his text about Goksin.

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In 2008, for the release of his book on May 68, Göksin has an exhibition at Visa pour l'Image, the Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan. On this occasion, he will give an exclusive interview to Michel Puech. You can read this interview on the French version of LaLettre.

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It was a long time ago in the early eighties, when I was responsible for photography at Libération. We were a poor newspaper whose audience did not reflect the economic reality. We were also a daily newspaper that loved photographers and photography – it was reciprocal - and we defended a pic...

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“He didn’t always pay us very well, but we owe him a great deal.” This was Patrick Chauvel’s strong closing statement during the too brief homage paid to Göksin Sipahioglu by the organizers of the 18th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents. A short interv...

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Göksin Sipahioglu died today. Long live the king! He was the king as a pioneer photojournalist, the king in shrewd business deals, the king at engineering a news ” coup”, the king at mentoring young talent, the king at entertaining and the king with the fairest gender. No one can ask...

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