self-taught turkish chalcographer
Turkish artist Yakup Çetinkaya, 78, who works as a chalcographer in Turkey’s Afyonkarahisar, has been engraving copper for more than 40 years. It takes up to 20,000 hammering to engrave a single landscape for Çetinkaya. “I took a lot of pictures while I was in art school, and some of my artworks resemble those pictures. […]