Bahar Kural is an award winning photographer and media artist specializing in abstract, architecture, fine art and street photography. Bahar has won a total of 181 International Photography Awards since December 2020 - the date she started entering International Photography Competitions. Bahar’s international competition results from 2020 to Date are:
2023 - Tokyo Foto Awards: 5
5 Honorable Mentions
2023 - Paris Street Photography Awards: 6
1 Gold, 1 Finalist, 2 Silver, 2 Honorable Mentions
2023 - International Photography Awards: 8
8 Honorable Mentions
2023 - The Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3): 5
1 Bronze, 4 Honorable Mentions
2023 - 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
1 Category Win, 21 Honorable Mentions
2023 - 16th International Color Awards
1 First Place, 7 Honorable Mentions, 10 Nominations
2023 - 19th Pollux Awards
21 Honorable Mentions
2022 Annual Photography Awards
1 Honorable Mention
2022 Tokyo International Foto Awards
1 Bronze, 1 Honorable Mention
2022 - 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
4 Category Wins, 32 Honorable Mentions
2022 Pollux Awards
1 Category Winner, 5 Honorable Mentions
2022 Luxembourg Art Prize
Certificate of Artistic Achievement
2021 Tokyo International Foto Awards
1 Gold, 4 Honorable Mentions and 3 Official Selection Awards
2021 MasterPrize in Architecture Awards
1 Gold and 3 Honorable Mentions
2021 Moscow International Foto Awards
2 Silver, 2 Bronze and 6 Honorable Mentions
2021 Budapest International Foto Awards
1 Silver and 4 Honorable Mentions
Prix de la Photographie Paris 2021 Awards
1 Bronze and 1 Silver and 3 Honorable Mentions
2021 International Photography Awards
7 Honorable Mentions
2021 Neutral Density Awards
3 Honorable Mentions
2021 - 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
3 Honorable Mentions
2021 One Eyeland Awards
World’s Top 10 Mobile Photographer Award
2021 Luxembourg Art Prize
Certificate of Artistic Achievement
2020 Paris International Street Photography Awards
1 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Finalist Awards
2020 International Photography Awards
The Jury Top 5 Award and 8 Honorable Mentions
2020 Neutral Density Awards
1 Honorable Mention
A native of Istanbul, Bahar lives in NYC with her two children where she runs her own full service real estate development firm, Bahar Kural Development. Bahar specializes in building small-scale developments from ground up and restoration projects in NYC and Turkey. Her passion for creating beautiful spaces goes hand-in-hand with her passion for creating unique photographic and media art. One of her recent projects, the development and staging of a 4,000 square condo loft in Tribeca, included the installation of twenty five artworks by the artist.
Bahar is a graduate of Swarthmore College, Columbia Business School and Robert College of Istanbul, the oldest American preparatory school outside the US.
Notable among Bahar’s awards are Her “Brooklyn Bridge: Life’s Theater” series, shot in January 2018 in Dumbo which won the Gold Medal and the Finalist Prizes in the 2020 Paris International Street Photography Awards, 2021 MasterPrize in Architecture Award, The Gold Medal in the 2021 Tokyo International Foto Awards, The Silver Medal in the 2021 Moscow Foto Awards, The Silver Medal in the 2021 The Prix de la Photographie Paris Awards, The Silver Medal in the 2021 Tokyo Foto Awards, Jury’s Top 5 Selection Award as well as three Honorable Mention Awards in the 2020 International Photography Awards, an Honorable Mention Award from The Neutral Density 2020 Awards an an Honorable Mention from the 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards.
Her “A Day at the Beach” series won the Street Photography category in the 2022 18th Pollux Awards and the bronze medal in the Culture category in the 2022 Tokyo Photo Awards. Her “Manhattan from Brooklyn” image won the Silver Medal in the 2021 Moscow Foto Awards, an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Tokyo Foto Awards, an Honorable Mention Award from the 2021 The Prix de la Photographie Paris Awards and an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Masterprize in Architecture Awards. Her “Manhattan in a Cage” image won the Silver Medal in the 2021 Moscow Foto Awards, an Honorable Mention Award from the 2021 The Prix de la Photographie Paris Awards. Her “Respect (for the Empire State)” image won the Bronze Medal in the 2021 Moscow Foto Awards, an Honorable Mention Award in the 2021 The Prix de la Photographie Paris Awards and an Honorable Mention in the 2021 International Photography Awards. Her “Shooting Hoops” image won the sports category in the 2022 Julia Margaret Cameron Awards and the Silver Medal in the 2020 Paris Street Photography Awards. Her “Art Deco New York” series won a total of six Honorable Mentions from the 2021 International Photography Awards, the 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, the 2021 Tokyo Foto Awards, the 2021 Moscow Foto Awards, the 2021 Budapest Foto Awards and the 2021 MasterPrize in Architecture Awards.