About Me

He was born in İskenderun on New Year’s Day in 1954. He graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy at Istanbul University in 1975. He specialized in Pharmacology at the Gülhane Military Medical Academy from 1980 to 1983 and completed his doctorate in History of Medicine and Deontology at the Gülhane Military Medical Faculty from 1985 to 1989. He became an Associate Professor in 1997, Head of the Department in 1998, Professor in 2010, and Head of the Department of Basic Medical Sciences in 2011. Retiring in 2013, he began his interests in natural sciences and nature photography. Since 2018, he has been continuing his scientific work as a faculty member in the Department of History of Medicine and Ethics at Lokman Hekim University’s Faculty of Medicine.

Ataç, who had a long-standing interest in plastic arts and painting, focused his efforts on photography after purchasing his first camera in 1970. Throughout his 55 years of work, he has held more than 40 solo photography exhibitions in various cities in Turkey, as well as in the US, Germany, Romania, and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). He has staged more than 100 solo slide shows. He has participated in more than 250 group exhibitions and slide shows both domestically and internationally. His photographs have appeared in various books, magazines, brochures, posters, calendars, stamps, and postcards. He has received more than 60 awards both domestically and internationally. He has served as an organizer and selection committee member in numerous national and international photography competitions. He has published and edited more than 30 photography books and more than 20 scientific books.

He was a founding member of the Photographic Art Society (FSK), the Altınoran Photographic Art Society (ALFOD), the Gülhane Photography Club (GÜFOK), and the Mogan Bird Photography Working Group, serving as their chair. He has provided over 130 photography training courses and seminars, training students at various ministries and universities, as well as numerous associations and institutions. He was named “Most Successful Photographer of the Year” by IFSAK in 1988, “Artist of the Year in Photography” by the Ankara Art Society in 2002, and an “Honorary Member of the Photographic Art Society” in 2009.

His photographs, with their experimental and inquisitive approaches to subjects related to people and life, ballet, nudes, nature, and macro, and his new and distinctive arrangements, are noteworthy. In the 2000s, he focused on nature studies, particularly those focusing on animals and insects. He published his work on Turkey’s butterflies in a book titled “Our Daytime Butterflies” in 2010, and his work on birds in a book titled “Birds with the Beauties I’ve Seen and Want to See” in 2020. His photography work on nature continues. The five-volume e-book “Birds Through the Eyes of Adnan Ataç” was published on issuu.com. Between 2011 and 2025, he published 15 calendars featuring “Birds of Ankara” to raise awareness and information about birds seen in Ankara.

In addition, numerous brochures, books, and exhibitions promoting Turkey were published, as well as photography books on Kütahya, Kayseri, Amasya, and Hacıbektaş. In 2023, he published the following book on the Art of Photography: He has published three books: “Clairvoyance in Nature,” which includes the exhibitions “Minimalism in Nature” and “Dynamicism in Nature,” “3 Concepts, 3 Exhibitions,” which includes the exhibitions “The Idea of ​​Beauty,” “Metaphor of Love – The Dialectical Contradiction of Love and Existence,” and “On Existence,” which includes the exhibitions “Reality in Dreams,” “Bodies Beyond the Soul,” and “Human Alienation from Oneself.”

His scientific and photographic works are published on the website “adnanatac.com,” on “500px.com,” “fotono1.com,” and “fotokritik.com” under the username “aatac,” and on “Instagram” under the username “adnanatac.prof.”