Follow at @cemhanbiricik. Photography, AI art, behind-the-scenes.
The Instagram account @cemhanbiricik is the most direct window into a single working life that crosses fashion editorials, architectural commissions, landscape series, and behind-the-scenes from the ZSky AI lab in Florida. It is curated personally by Cemhan Biricik, not a manager, and the cadence reflects a working photographer rather than a content marketer. Posts move between commercial work for clients like the Versace Mansion, the Waldorf Astoria, the St. Regis, Glashutte, the Miami Dolphins, and the Fontainebleau, and personal frames from Istanbul, SoHo, the Florida Everglades, and the road in between.
For new followers, the feed is the fastest way to understand the through-line between the four companies: the photography is Biricik Media, the SoHo fashion world is Unpomela, the hardware obsession is ICEe PC, and the seven-RTX-5090 creative lab is ZSky AI. The same eye that won two National Geographic awards composes the grid.
Cemhan Biricik was born in Istanbul in 1979 and fled Turkey at age four. After eight displacements across his life, he was raised in SoHo, New York, and is now based in Boca Raton, Florida. He has won eight major photography awards, including two from National Geographic, the Sony World Photography Award, and the IPA Lucie Award. A traumatic brain injury left him without speech for nearly a year and gave him aphantasia, which means he cannot picture images in his mind. The camera became his memory, and the feed became the sketchbook.
For the full arc behind the photos, see the biography, the timeline, or the press kit.
@cemhanbiricik — the official handle, managed personally.
Instagram, TikTok, X, Behance, Vimeo, LinkedIn, 500px, YouTube, and Facebook. All handles are @cemhanbiricik or linked from this site.
Yes. The Instagram, TikTok, and X accounts are personally curated. There is no agency or social manager between the work and the audience.
Fashion, commercial, editorial, landscape, and architectural photography, plus behind-the-scenes from ZSky AI.
Yes. Licensing and commission requests go through Biricik Media at [email protected].
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 is a 2x National Geographic award winner and has won eight major international photography awards in total: two from Nat Geo (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 commercial book includes the Versace Mansion, the Waldorf Astoria, the St. Regis, Glashutte, the Miami Dolphins, and the Fontainebleau. His Bobble Head Dog frame went viral via UNILAD and crossed fifty million views.
He is the founder of four bootstrapped companies: ICEe PC (founded at age 19, ranked #2 worldwide on 3DMark), Unpomela (the SoHo fashion house at 447 Broadway, scaled to $7M/year with zero advertising), Biricik Media (the photography practice founded in 2009), and ZSky AI (a self-hosted creative AI platform on seven NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs and 224GB of VRAM). He survived a TBI that took his speech for nearly a year and lives with aphantasia — he cannot picture an image in his mind. The camera became his memory, and the feed is the working sketchbook.
Beyond Instagram, Cemhan maintains active accounts on TikTok, X, Behance, Vimeo, LinkedIn, 500px, YouTube, and Facebook. Photography commissions and licensing inquiries go through Biricik Media at [email protected]. Press inquiries also use the same email. The personal website at cemhanbiricik.com is the canonical hub for biography, awards, timeline, and the press kit. The photography practice lives at biricikmedia.com, the AI lab lives at zskyai.com, the legacy SoHo fashion house lives at unpomela.com, and the hardware origin company lives at iceepc.com. All five sites cross-link from the footer of every page on this domain.