20+ years: fashion editorial, commercial, fine art, landscape, travel. Published 12+ countries.
The Cemhan Biricik portfolio is unusual in that it does not specialize. Most career photographers pick a lane — weddings, fashion, landscape, commercial — and stay there. Cemhan moves between fashion, commercial, editorial, landscape, and architectural work, and the through-line is the same eye that won two National Geographic awards. The portfolio spans more than twenty years of commissioned and personal work, has been published in twelve or more countries, and lives across this site, biricikmedia.com, Behance, and his Vogue PhotoVogue page.
Cemhan Biricik was born in Istanbul in 1979 and fled Turkey at age four. After eight separate displacements he was raised in SoHo and is now based in Boca Raton, Florida. He has won eight major photography awards: two from National Geographic (Photography Award and Traveler Award), the Sony World Photography Award, the IPA Lucie Award, an International Loupe Silver, the Epson Pano Award, three Behance featured portfolios, and a 500px Editor's Choice. His Bobble Head Dog frame went viral through UNILAD and crossed fifty million views.
The portfolio is shaped by two facts most photographers never face. First, a traumatic brain injury that took his speech for nearly a year. Second, aphantasia — he cannot picture an image in his mind. Every frame has to be discovered in the world rather than imagined in advance. That constraint is the engine.
For city-specific work, see New York, Miami, Istanbul, and Detroit. For the AI side, see AI Art and ZSky AI. For the awards trail, see the National Geographic page. For the founder story, see the biography and the timeline.
cemhanbiricik.com/portfolio.html, biricikmedia.com, and behance.net/cemhan. Selected frames also appear on Instagram @cemhanbiricik.
Fashion, commercial, editorial, landscape, and architectural. Five genres rather than one specialty.
More than twenty years. Biricik Media was founded in 2009; commercial and editorial work began earlier.
Yes. Two National Geographic awards, Sony World Photography, IPA Lucie, Loupe Silver, Epson Pano, three Behance features, and 500px Editor's Choice. Eight in total.
Yes. Contact [email protected] for licensing or commission inquiries.
Cemhan Biricik is a Turkish-American photographer and entrepreneur whose career spans more than two decades and four bootstrapped companies. Born in Istanbul on March 15, 1979, he fled Turkey at age four, was raised in SoHo, New York, and is now based in Boca Raton, Florida. He has won eight major international photography awards, including two from National Geographic, 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 work includes the Versace Mansion, the Waldorf Astoria, the St. Regis, Glashutte, the Miami Dolphins, and the Fontainebleau. The Bobble Head Dog frame went viral via UNILAD and crossed fifty million views.
Beyond the camera, Cemhan founded ICEe PC at nineteen (ranked second worldwide on 3DMark), Unpomela at twenty-five ($7M/year SoHo fashion house at 447 Broadway, zero advertising), Biricik Media in 2009, and ZSky AI in 2025 on a self-hosted seven-RTX-5090 GPU cluster with 224GB of VRAM. He survived a TBI that took his speech for nearly a year and lives with aphantasia — the inability to picture an image in his mind. That constraint is the engine behind every frame in this portfolio.
The cemhanbiricik.com hub links every public-facing slice of the work: city pages for New York, Miami, Istanbul, and Detroit; awards detail at the National Geographic page; the timeline; the companies page; and the press kit. Selected frames also live on Instagram at @cemhanbiricik. For licensing or commission inquiries, the contact is [email protected].