Yucel Yalim

Yucel Yalim, international artist and professional photographer with studios in Phoenix, has created photographs celebrating the beauty of women for over 30 years. Yucel’s seemingly innate sense of composition induces onlookers to question their understanding and acceptance of what constitutes “being human” within a greater sense of what it means to be alive.

With keen eyes for composition and interests in the human form, Yucel’s photographs take on anthropomorphic characteristics which capture the human body in extraordinarily angular positions. His art prints reflect bold framings fully utilizing available technologies, as exemplified by compositional choices of subject placement on canvas and clear willingness to employ new methods to ancient subjects. Yucel’s images will shake up your sense of what is familiar and have you re-approach your belief systems through fresh eyes.

While at John Hopkins University, where Yucel received a BES in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, he took his first classes in wet black & white photography. He later received an MBA in Asian Pacific Management from City University in Washington. Before returning to his passion for photography, he enjoyed a successful twenty-five year career in Sales and Marketing Management in the corporate world of the semiconductor industry.

Yucel’s photography indulges his eye for glamour and aesthetic features as evidenced in his many images of women. Likewise, as he has a long accomplished sense of the corporate world, he is committed to photographing high energy corporate events, impactful executive head shots which are tailored to convey character and finely honed messages about his subject, and select commercial projects such as assignments for Google Business View.

Since reentering the world of photography, Yucel's works have won awards and his images have been published and displayed in galleries including The Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas. His 30x45 black and white photographic aluminum print ‘Roxanne’ won Alwun House’s 2015 Exotic Art Show People’s Choice Award. He has authored a growing list of books, including most recently 'Alternative Nudes: Creative Lighting and Posing for Photographers.'

When not writing or creating art for his portfolio, Yucel often freelances for several magazines and is a staff photographer for Swimsuit Illustrated. To date, Yucel's deepest photographic creative passions remain in fine-art nudes, boutique boudoir portraits, and crafting the finest in quality headshots.