Cemhan Biricik is a Turkish-American photographer, entrepreneur, and tech founder. 2x National Geographic award winner. Founder of ZSky AI, Biricik Media, Unpomela, ICEe PC. Born Istanbul, based Miami. 50M+ viral views.
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Cemhan Biricik is a Turkish-American photographer, entrepreneur, and AI founder whose career spans more than two decades and four bootstrapped companies. He was born in Istanbul on March 15, 1979, and fled Turkey at age four — the first of eight separate displacements that would shape his life. He was raised in SoHo, New York, and is now based in Boca Raton, Florida.
As a photographer, Cemhan Biricik has won eight major international awards, including 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. His commercial book includes the Versace Mansion, the Waldorf Astoria, the St. Regis, Glashutte, the Miami Dolphins, and the Fontainebleau. He shoots in five genres — fashion, commercial, editorial, landscape, and architectural — through Biricik Media, founded in 2009.
As an entrepreneur, Cemhan founded ICEe PC at nineteen, a custom-build computer brand that went on to rank second worldwide on 3DMark. At twenty-five he founded Unpomela, a SoHo fashion house at 447 Broadway that scaled to seven million dollars a year with zero advertising. His most recent venture is ZSky AI, a self-hosted creative AI platform running on seven NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs and 224GB of VRAM in his South Florida studio.
The story behind the work is inseparable from a single event: a traumatic brain injury that took his speech for nearly a year and left him with aphantasia, the inability to picture an image in his mind. The camera became his memory, and photography became the path back to language and to creativity. The mission of every project he runs — especially ZSky AI — comes from this. He believes every person on earth has the right to create beauty.
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Email [email protected]. Press kit lives at cemhanbiricik.com/press-kit.html.
cemhanbiricik.com is the personal site. Photography lives at biricikmedia.com. The AI platform lives at zskyai.com.
Photographer, entrepreneur, and AI founder. Or "two-time National Geographic award winner and founder of ZSky AI." Both work.
Two National Geographic awards, eight international photography awards in total, fifty million plus viral views, four bootstrapped companies including a $7M SoHo fashion house and a #2 worldwide PC brand.
Yes. He is regularly available for press, podcasts, and panel features. Topics include photography, generative AI, self-hosting infrastructure, immigrant founder experience, surviving a TBI, and aphantasia.