Tahir Ün was born in Turkey. He has been working periodically at Xinjiang (Uighur) Autonomous Region of China, Balkans, Caucasia and Turkey as a freelance photographer, an instructor, videographer, curator and activist. His works accepted to some collections such as Istanbul Modern Museum, Polaroid Collection, Collection of Ransom Center Photography at Texas University, Colección del Centro de Fotografía de Tenerife, State Museum of Majdenek and Rhizome Artbase. Tahir Ün published four books titled “Imagined Views/Moments of Revulsion” Photographs (1990) and “The Poetic Introduction of Representation of the Hidden Photograph” Poems (1995 in Turkish), “Xinjiang : My Ancestral Land” photographs (2012), “Ali” photographs (2014) and "Aynı Gökyüzünün Altında" (2019 in Turkish-Armenian). In addition, his articles about image theory are published in various Turkish art magazines since 2000. Please visit his web site for more information.