Emerging Talent Award Title: AMEN2 Name: Aydin Berk Bilgin Country: Turkey Shooting situations "AMEN2" was shot at daytime at the Eyup Sultan Mosque in Istanbul. Built in 1458, the mosque was one of the first to be erected in the city after its Ottoman conquest. Today the neighborhood of Eyup is an area populated by fundamental Islamists. This photo was taken at the mosque's courtyard. Feelings towards this work and how it interprets "At the heart of the image" At the heart of this image is a Muslim man at prayer before a mosque wall of Ottoman-era ceramics. One assumes that at the heart of this man at this specific moment of concentration must be just one thing: God. Even though I am not a practicing believer, I was captured by the intensity of the light that seemed to connect the praying man to the calligraphy of "Allah" to his upper left on the wall he is facing. The light seemed to illuminate in writing what was in the man's heart at that very moment. Further comments This photograph is a single print from a series (2007-2008) focusing on the Eyup neighborhood.