Yar Mail is Cengiz’s personal newsletter, penned from his West Texas desk. It's random, infrequent, messy, and in its 5th year.

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  • Yar Mail #51: Opportunities & Links - 03/09/2025

  • Yar Mail #50: Photo Book Printing in the Netherlands - 02/19/2025

  • Yar Mail #49: Gary He’s McVenture - 01/23/2025

  • Yar Mail #48: The List No One Asked For - 12/31/2024

  • Yar Mail #47: Thanksgiving - 11/28/2024

  • Yar Mail #46: Last chance to support my photobook - 10/08/2024

  • Yar Mail #45: Only 13 days left to fund my book - 09/25/2024

  • Yar Mail #44: Behind my photobook’s cover - 09/15/2024

  • Yar Mail #43: My first photobook - 09/09/2024

  • Yar Mail #42: Notes from an artist residency - 07/15/2024

  • Yar Mail #41.5: Civil War (reviewed) - 05/25/2024

  • Yar Mail #41: Civil War (reviewed) - 05/19/2024

  • Yar Mail #40: How to Photograph Protests (Safely) - 05/04/2024

  • Yar Mail #39: Borderlands - 04/27/2024

  • Yar Mail #38: Photographer Smita Sharma - 04/13/2024

  • Yar Mail #37: The changing face of protests - 03/29/2024

  • Yar Mail #36: New Mexico’s hidden secret - 03/23/2024

  • Yar Mail #35: On Newsletters - 02/25/2024

  • Yar Mail #34: The List No One Asked For - 01/06/2024

  • Yar Mail #33: Thanks & Giving - 11/24/2023

  • Yar Mail #32: My Twitter Eulogy - 11/02/2023

  • Yar Mail #31: Tips for photographers doing portfolio reviews - 09/09/2023

  • Yar Mail #30: - 05/13/2023

  • Yar Mail #29: How I edited Erin Krall’s new photo book + a print giveaway - 03/05/2023

  • Yar Mail #28: Remembering Pete Reed - 02/17/2023

  • Yar Mail #27: Rest of World's first photo contest - 01/12/2023

  • Yar Mail #26: The List No One Asked For - 12/27/2022

  • Yar Mail #25: The best photography I saw in France - 09/16/2022

  • Yar Mail #24: On that Annie Leibovitz photoshoot in Ukraine - 08/07/2022

  • Yar Mail #23: Photo Editor? Come work with me! - 07/26/2022

  • Yar Mail #22: Yar Mail - 05/22/2022

  • Yar Mail #21: And so begins 2022... - 01/15/2022

  • Yar Mail #20: Love photography? Come work with me - 04/07/2021

  • Yar Mail #19: Finally, That Photo Book Newsletter - 01/18/2021

  • Yar Mail #18: The List No One Asked For - 12/29/2020

  • Yar Mail #17: That Newsletter I Owed You Months Ago - 11/18/2020

  • Yar Mail #16: A Quick Note On Upcoming Safety Resources For Photographers - 09/11/2020

  • Yar Mail #15: Introducing The Underworld Podcast - 08/31/2020

  • Yar Mail #14: How To Photograph Protests Safely - 07/26/2020

  • Yar Mail #13: Free Safety Advice + Portfolio Review - 06/10/2020

  • Yar Mail #12: Safety Advice For Covering Protests - 06/05/2020

  • Yar Mail #11: 5 Black Photographers You Should Be Following Right Now - 06/01/2020

  • Yar Mail #10: Is This The Perfect Social Camera? - 05/16/2020

  • Yar Mail #9: A Review Five Years in the Making - 04/13/2020

  • Yar Mail #8: In Conversation with Sarah Palmer - 03/26/2020

  • Yar Mail #7: Murad and His Nikon - 03/10/2020

  • Yar Mail #6: From One Disaster to the Next - 02/05/2020

  • Yar Mail #5: Growing Grass In Iraq - 02/05/2020

  • Yar Mail #4: In Conversation with Greg Kahn - 01/13/2020

  • Yar Mail #3: No On Asked For This - 12/30/2019

  • Yar Mail #2: Flying a Drone in Syria. What Could Go Wrong? - 12/12/2019

  • Yar Mail #1: For Blackened Fridays - 11/13/2019