BARIKAT by Charles Emir Richards

Publisher: Fotografevi Yayınları, Istanbul, 2021

Format: Softcover artist's book

ISBN: 978-9944-720-27-5

BARIKAT is a photographic artist's book by Charles Emir Richards, published in collaboration with Fotografevi Yayınları. Developed around the events and aftermath of the Gezi Park protests, the publication examines the barricade not merely as an object of resistance, but as a temporary architecture shaped by solidarity, vulnerability, and collective imagination. Through a restrained visual language, Richards transforms documentary photography into a meditation on civic space, memory, and political agency, positioning the artist's book as both a historical document and a quiet reflection on the fragile structures that emerge in moments of public upheaval.