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Emre Uygun: A thousand-year-old Turkish olive heritage comes to life through lenses!

Press release…

The Story of the Olive is Told Through Photography: The Golden Drop of Green 2 Has Begun…

Türkiye’s Olive Memory is Being Recorded Through a Competition Organized by EZZİB…

Türkiye’s Olive and Olive Oil Heritage is Captured in Photographs…

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Today, this heritage is being carried into the future thru the approach of the Golden Drop of Green; Türkiye’s Olive and Olive Oil Heritage 2 National Photography Competition, organized by the Aegean Olive and Olive Oil Exporters Association (EZZİB) in collaboration with the İzmir Photography Art Association (İFOD) and the Turkish Photography Art Federation (TFSF).

The Golden Drop of Green; The final application deadline for the 2nd National Photography Competition on the country’s Olive and Olive Oil Heritage is February 15th.

Emre Uygun, Chair of the Aegean Olive and Olive Oil Exporters Association (EZZİB), stated that their aim with this competition is to visually depict Türkiye’s quality, hygiene and technology-focused production approach throughout all processes, from harvest to pressing, on the journey of the olive from the branch to the table.

“We are looking for photographs from participants that esthetically reflect labour, naturalness, production environments that comply with hygiene rules and modern technologies during the harvesting and processing of olives,”he said.

“As EZZİB, we launched this competition as a social responsibility project aimed at passing on the labour, quality understanding and cultural heritage in olive and olive oil production to future generations” he noted.

“With these studies, which combine the legacy of the past with today’s modern understanding of production, we aim to make our country’s cultural richness and high production quality in the field of olives and olive oil visible on the international stage,” he added…

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