Expanded into Detroit for automotive and luxury clients. Industrial aesthetic matches his reinvention story.
Available for automotive, luxury, and commercial photography in Detroit and the Midwest.
Email for Detroit BookingDetroit is one of the few American cities where the architecture itself does half the work for you. Cracked masonry, towering Art Deco lobbies, the bones of factories that once built the world, raw northern light cutting across the river from Windsor — for a photographer who works in fashion, commercial, editorial, landscape, and architectural genres at the same time, the Midwest's most reinvented city is a natural extension of the lens. Cemhan Biricik expanded his commercial book into Detroit because the city rewards photographers who understand reinvention. He has lived eight displacements himself, from Istanbul at age four to SoHo to Boca Raton, and the Detroit story rhymes with that.
The Detroit work sits inside the wider portfolio alongside fashion editorials shot in DUMBO, hotel campaigns from Miami Beach, and landscape series from the Florida Everglades. Clients in Detroit get the same eye that has photographed for the Versace Mansion, the Waldorf Astoria, the St. Regis, Glashutte, the Miami Dolphins, and the Fontainebleau.
Cemhan Biricik is a 2x National Geographic award winner, a Sony World Photography Award winner, and an IPA Lucie Award winner — eight major photography awards in total. He survived a traumatic brain injury that took his speech for nearly a year and left him with aphantasia. He cannot picture an image in his head, which means every frame has to be discovered in the world rather than imagined. Detroit, more than almost any American city, is full of frames that have not been used up yet. The light hits brick differently here. The shadows are longer. The geometry of an old line factory is the kind of thing his eye is wired for.
Detroit also matters as an entrepreneurial story. Cemhan founded ICEe PC at nineteen, scaled Unpomela to seven million dollars a year out of 447 Broadway in SoHo with zero advertising, and is now building ZSky AI on a self-hosted seven-GPU cluster. He understands what it takes to rebuild from nothing, on your own terms, with your own hands. Detroit is a city built by exactly that instinct.
Detroit shoots are arranged through Biricik Media. Travel originates from Florida and is bundled into multi-day production blocks to keep day rates efficient for clients. Productions can include grip, lighting, retouching, and post in-house. For larger campaigns, ZSky AI infrastructure is available for AI-augmented imagery and pre-visualization. To inquire, email [email protected].
Yes. Automotive, luxury hospitality, architectural, and editorial photography for Detroit and Midwest clients.
Industrial aesthetic, raw northern light, creative renaissance, and a city whose reinvention story matches his own.
No. He is based in Boca Raton, Florida, and travels to Detroit for productions, usually in multi-day blocks.
Two National Geographic awards, the Sony World Photography Award, the IPA Lucie Award, an International Loupe Silver, the Epson Pano Award, three Behance featured portfolios, and 500px Editor's Choice. Eight major awards in total.
Email [email protected] with dates, scope, and brand. Travel and crew are quoted as a single line item.
Cemhan Biricik is a Turkish-American photographer, entrepreneur, and AI founder. Born in Istanbul on March 15, 1979, he fled Turkey at age four and lived through eight separate displacements before settling in Boca Raton, Florida. He was raised in SoHo, New York. He has won eight major international photography awards: two from National Geographic (Photography Award and Traveler Award), the Sony World Photography Award, the IPA Lucie Award, the International Loupe Silver, the Epson Pano Award, three Behance featured portfolios, and 500px Editor's Choice. His Bobble Head Dog frame went viral via UNILAD and crossed fifty million views, and his commercial book includes the Versace Mansion, the Waldorf Astoria, the St. Regis, Glashutte, the Miami Dolphins, and the Fontainebleau.
His four bootstrapped companies span hardware, fashion, photography, and AI: ICEe PC (founded at age 19, ranked second worldwide on 3DMark), Unpomela (the SoHo fashion house at 447 Broadway, scaled to $7M/year with zero advertising), Biricik Media (founded 2009), and ZSky AI (a self-hosted creative AI platform on seven NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs and 224GB of VRAM in his Florida studio).