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 COLORS IN THE DARK
Esref Armagan
An artistic and scientific unique case

Esref Armagan is a very unusual Turkish painter. His artwork has been exhibited in Turkey and abroad. Hanging in his apartment in Turkey is a framed thank you letter from Bill Clinton because Esref had painted his portrait. There have been newspaper articles written about him and he has appeared on Turkish television as well as CNN and BBC. Whoever meets Esref is touched and awed by the freedom of light in his paintings and the depth of his colors.

Esref is a blind painter, blind from birth. He has never been able to see nor understand colors as seeing people do. He has never been able to see the magic light at sunset nor the beauty of a flowering meadow in the spring. The stubborn persistence mixed with his unique genius has given Esref the voice to express himself and "the eyes to see with."
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