Aleksander Safa Topal
Born in Vakfıkebir, Trabzon, Turkiye in 1989 and has spent his childhood in Giresun, Turkey with his family until the age of 18. He spent his summer times on the slopes of Mount Sis in Giresun with his family until being a teenager. It was when he met with pastoral lifestyle and nature of Pontic Mountains.
It was 2008 Autumn when Aleksander Safa moved to Ankara to study his degree in IT in Bilkent University in Ankara. In 2010, he moved to Carlow, Ireland for the academic year as part of Erasmus Student Exchange Programme. Then he started photography while he already had an interest in film-making. He has been photographing anything with aesthetic properties when he can since then. After the Erasmus year in Ireland in 2011, he returned to Ankara to finish his degree. He also studied cinema and visual arts courses as an addition to IT studies in Bilkent University.
After graduating from the university in 2014, he moved to Istanbul for his first full time job in IT. Then it was 2016 when he moved to Dublin, Ireland to continue his career in the same industry. After quitting the company he was working for in 2019, he continued his career as freelance software engineer as well as a freelance photographer between 2020 and 2021.
It was 2022 winter when he moved to Finland for his next full time job in IT industry.
He is based in Capital Region of Finland as of early 2022.