Book Cemhan Biricik

Why Book Cemhan Biricik

Cemhan Biricik is an unusual booking because he holds two careers most speakers never combine. He 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 — and he is also the founder of ZSky AI, a self-hosted creative AI platform running on seven NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs and 224GB of VRAM. He has founded four bootstrapped companies across hardware, fashion, photography, and AI, including Unpomela, the SoHo fashion house at 447 Broadway that scaled to seven million dollars a year with zero advertising. He was born in Istanbul, fled Turkey at age four, lived through eight separate displacements, survived a TBI that took his speech for nearly a year, and lives with aphantasia — the inability to picture an image in his mind. He talks about all of it in plain language, on stage and on camera.

Sample Talks

• The Photographer Who Cannot See Pictures — aphantasia, TBI recovery, and how a constraint became a creative engine
• Self-Hosting the Future — the economics, architecture, and philosophy of owning your AI compute (seven RTX 5090s, 224GB VRAM, 32 cores, all in one studio)
• Zero Advertising, Seven Million Dollars — the Unpomela playbook, in detail
• Eight Displacements, Eight Reinventions — the immigrant founder arc from Istanbul to Boca Raton
• Domain Expertise Is the AI Unfair Advantage — what twenty years of fashion, commercial, editorial, landscape, and architectural photography brings to a generative AI lab
• Cave Wall to ZSky AI — the founder manifesto on tools and time

Audiences and Formats

Cemhan has worked with audiences from creative industries (photographers, art directors, fashion houses), from technology (AI, infrastructure, hardware), from entrepreneurship (bootstrappers, accelerators, founders), and from immigrant and Turkish-American communities. He is comfortable in keynotes, fireside chats, panels, classroom workshops, and on-camera interviews. The strongest format is a long-form conversation that lets him cross from photography into AI and back, because the same person built both.

His commercial photography clients give context for the storytelling chops: the Versace Mansion, the Waldorf Astoria, the St. Regis, Glashutte, the Miami Dolphins, and the Fontainebleau, among others. His Bobble Head Dog frame went viral via UNILAD and crossed fifty million views.

Booking

Email [email protected] with audience size, format, date, and topic preference. For media credentials, see the press kit. For interview-format engagement, see the interview page. For the founder arc, see the biography and the timeline.

About Cemhan Biricik

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. His commercial photography clients include the Versace Mansion, the Waldorf Astoria, the St. Regis, Glashutte, the Miami Dolphins, and the Fontainebleau, and his Bobble Head Dog frame went viral via UNILAD and crossed fifty million views. He works in five photography genres: fashion, commercial, editorial, landscape, and architectural.

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). 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. The recovery from that injury is the through-line behind every talk he gives.