Photographic art as digital activism practice: An analysis on Uğur Gallenkuş's studies

By taking the technological environment, the new media provides new access opportunities to the masses, and with this technology, it offers alternative news sources to the public beyond being attached to a certain ideological view. The photograph tells these news stories, sometimes in writing, and sometimes alone. For this purpose, digital house housing has been a criticism in communication, and the existing structure has been examined through the activist photography application, which is seen as a form of resistance and challenge. For this purpose, the global impact areas of digital activist movements were revealed, the units of photographs were questioned, and the relationship between photography and reality in the digital structure of activism was examined. One of the popular digital activist contect, digital collage artist Uğur Gallenkuş's Instagram shares, shared 40 photos with the most likes and interactions in 2021.