Edward Burtynsky: Manufactured landscapes

Edward Burtynsky insan yapımı manzaralar üzerine

Çeviri: tuba yilmaz Gözden geçirme: Diba Szamosi

Walk around for four months with three wishes,

Üç ay boyunca üç dilekle etrafta dolastim,

and all the ideas will start to percolate up.

ve bütün fikirler filtreden geçmeye başladi.

I think everybody should do it -- think that you've got three wishes.

Bana kalirsa herkes bunu yapmali -- Üc tane dileğiniz olduğunu düşünün.

And what would you do? It's actually a great exercise

Ve ne yapacaginizi? Aslinda cok iyi bir egzersiz

to really drill down to the things that you feel are important,

önemli oldugunu hissetiginiz seyleri kurcalamak,

and really reflect on the world around us.

ve gercekten etrafimizdaki dunyaya yansitmak.

And thinking that, can an individual actually do something,

Ve bir birey gercekten birsey yapabilir mi,

or come up with something,

ya da bir fikir ortaya koyabilir mi,

that may actually get some traction out there and make a difference?

(ve bu fikir) aslinda bu bir surtunme ortaya cikarabilir ve bir farki yaratabilir mi?

Inspired by nature -- that's the theme here.

Dogadan esinlenerek -- simdiki konu bu.

And I think, quite frankly, that's where I started.

Ve bana kalirsa, acikcasi, bu benim baslama noktamdi.

I became very interested in the landscape as a Canadian.

Kanadali olarak peyzajla ilgilenmeye basladim.

We have this Great North. And there was a pretty small population,

Muazzam bir Kuzeyimiz var. Ve orada küçük bir populasyon vardi,

and my father was an avid outdoorsman.

ve babam hirsli bir acik hava insaniydi.

So I really had a chance to experience that.

Yani benim bunu terube etme sansim oldu

And I could never really understand exactly what it was, or how it was informing me.

Ve ben hicbirzaman onun ne oldugunu ya da beni nasil bbilgilendirdigini anlayamadim.

But what I think it was telling me

Fakat bana kalirsa bana anlattigi

is that we are this transient thing that's happening,

bizim gecici odugumuz

and that the nature that you see out there -- the untouched shorelines,

ve disarida gordugunuz doganin -- dokunulmamis kiyiseritleri,

the untouched forest that I was able to see --

benim gorebildigim dokunulmamis ormanlar --

really bring in a sense of that geological time,

jeolojik zamanin hislerini getirdi,

that this has gone on for a long time,

bu uzun sure devam etti,

and we're experiencing it in a different way.

ve bizler bunu farkli sekilde tecrube ediyoruz.

And that, to me, was a reference point that I think I needed to have

Ve bu, bana kalirsa, almam gereken bir referans noktasiydi

to be able to make the work that I did.

benim isimi yapabilmek icin.

And I did go out, and I did this picture of grasses coming through in the spring,

Ve disariya gittim, ve baharda cimlerin cikisinin resmini yaptim

along a roadside.

yol kenari boyunca.

This rebirth of grass. And then I went out for years

Cimlerin yeniden dogusu. Ve daha sonra yillarca disariya gittim

trying to photograph the pristine landscape.

bozulmamis peyzajlari fotograflamaya calistim.

But as a fine-art photographer I somehow felt

Fakat guzel sanatlar fotografcisi olarak birsekilde hissettimki

that it wouldn't catch on out there,

bu disarida tutunamayacak,

that there would be a problem with trying to make this as a fine-art career.

bunu guzel sanatlar kariyeri olarak yapmak bir problem olacakti.

And I kept being sucked into this genre of the calendar picture,

Ve bunu takvim resmi olarak yapmakta herzaman basarisizdim,

or something of that nature, and I couldn't get away from it.

ya da onun gibi bir sey, ve bundan kurtulamadim.

So I started to think of, how can I rethink the landscape?

Ve peyzaji yeniden nasil tasavvur edebilirim diye dusunmeye basladim.

I decided to rethink the landscape

peyzaji yeniden dusunmeye karar verdim

as the landscape that we've transformed.

bizim donusturdugumuz (farklilastirdigimiz) peyzaj olarak.

I had a bit of an epiphany being lost in Pennsylvania,

Pensilvanyada kaybolmam uzerine biraz ilham aldim,

and I took a left turn trying to get back to the highway.

ve otobana cikmaya calisirken sola dondum.

And I ended up in a town called Frackville.

Ve kendimi Frackville diye bir kasabada buldum.

I got out of the car, and I stood up,

Arabadan ciktim ve ayakta durdum,

and it was a coal-mining town. I did a 360 turnaround,

ve bitr maden/komur cikarma kasavbasiydi. 360 derece dondum,

and that became one of the most surreal landscapes I've ever seen.

ve orasi ozamana kadar gordugum en gercekustu peyzay oldu.

Totally transformed by man.

Insanoglu tarafindan tamamen degistirilmis.

And that got me to go out and look at mines like this,

Ve bunun uzerine diger madenlere gidip bakmaya basladim,

and go out and look at the largest industrial incursions

ve gidip en buyuk endustriyel saldirilara

in the landscape that I could find.

bulabildigim peyzajlarda.

And that became the baseline of what I was doing.

Ve bu yaptigim seyin temelini olusturdu.

And it also became the theme that I felt that I could hold onto,

Ve bu konuya tutunabilecegimi hissettim,

and not have to re-invent myself --

ve kendimi yenilemeye gerek duymadan --

that this theme was large enough to become a life's work,

bu konunun hayatimin isi ocak kadar buyuk olduguna,

to become something that I could sink my teeth into

benim tum enerjimi heyecanla harcayabilecegim birseye donusmesi

and just research and find out where these industries are.

ve sadece arastirma ve bu endustrilerin nerede oldugunu bulmak.

And I think one of the things I also wanted to say in my thanks,

Ve bana kalirsa teselkkur ederken soylemek istedigim,

which I kind of missed,

ve bir sekilde unuttugum,

was to thank all the corporations who helped me get in.

soyleki iceriye girmeme izin veren kurumlara (sirketlere) tesekkur etmek istiyorum.

Because it took negotiation for almost every one of these photographs --

Hemen hemen butun fotograflar icin pazarlik yapmak gerekti --

to get into that place to make those photographs,

o yerlere gidip fotograflari cekebilmek icin,

and if it wasn't for those people letting me in

ve eger o insanlar beni iceriye almasalardi

at the heads of those corporations,

kurumlarin/sirketlerin baslarindaki kisiler,

I would have never made this body of work.

bu isi asla yapamazdim.

So in that respect, to me, I'm not against the corporation.

Bu yonden ben sirketlere karsi degilim.

I own a corporation. I work with them,

Ben bir sirket sahibiyim. Ben onlarla calisiyorum,

and I feel that we all need them and they're important.

ben onlara ihtiyacim oldugunu ve onemli olduklarini dusunuyorum.

But I am also for sustainability.

Fakat ben ayni zamanda surdurulebilirlikten (kendi kendine yetme) yanayim.

So there's this thing that is pulling me in both directions.

Yani beni her iki yonden ceken birseyler var.

And I'm not making an indictment towards what's happening here,

Ve burada olanlara karsi bir suclama yapmiyorum,

but it is a slow progression.

ama bu yavas bir ilerleme.

So I started thinking, well, we live in all these ages of man:

Dusunmeye basladim, peki, biz insanogludun bulundugu asirlarda yasiyoruz:

the Stone Age, and the Iron Age, and the Copper Age.

tas devri, ve demir cagi, ve bakir cagi.

And these ages of man are still at work today.

Ve insanoglunun bu caglari halen daha calismakta.

But we've become totally disconnected from them.

Fakat biz onlardan tamamen koptuk.

There's something that we're not seeing there.

Orada gormedigimiz birseyler var.

And it's a scary thing as well. Because when we start looking

Ve bu kortucu birsey, cunku bakmaya basladigimizda

at the collective appetite for our lifestyles,

yasambicimlerimize olan toplu istaha (bakmaya basladigimizda),

and what we're doing to that landscape --

ve bu peyzaja ne yapacagimiza --

that, to me, is something that is a very sobering moment for me to contemplate.

bana kalirsa benim dikkatle izlemem icin bu cok ciddi bir an,

And through my photographs,

Ve benim fotograflarim araciligiyla,

I'm hoping to be able to engage the audiences of my work,

yaptigim isin seyircilerinin ilgisini cekmeyi umuyorum,

and to come up to it and not immediately be rejected by the image.

ve yanina gelip goruntuyle aninda reddedilmeyi degil.

Not to say, "Oh my God, what is it?" but to be challenged by it --

"Aman Allahim, oda nesi? " demek degil ama resim tarafindan dusundurulme --

to say, "Wow, this is beautiful," on one level,

soyle soyleme "Wow, bu guzel," bir yonden,

but on the other level, "This is scary. I shouldn't be enjoying it."

ama obur taraftan, "Bu korkutucu. Bundan zev almamaliyim."

Like a forbidden pleasure. And it's that forbidden pleasure

Yasaklanmis zevk gibi. Ve bu yasaklanmis zevk

that I think is what resonates out there,

disarida yankilaniyor,

and it gets people to look at these things,

ve insanlari bunlara bakmaya baslatiyor,

and it gets people to enter it. And it also, in a way, defines kind of what I feel, too --

ve insanlaribunlarla ilgilendirmeye basliyor, Ve Ayrica, bir yonden de, benim neler hissetigimi anlatiyor --

that I'm drawn to have a good life.

iyi bir yasantiya olan ilgimi.

I want a house, and I want a car.

Bir ev istiyorum, ve bir araba.

But there's this consequence out there.

Fakat bunlarin boyle bir sonucu var.

And how do I begin to have that attraction, repulsion?

Ve nasil bu cekim, itme hissini duymaya baslarim ?

It's even in my own conscience I'm having it,

Kendi bilincimde dahi bunu hissediyorum,

and here in my work, I'm trying to build that same toggle.

ve burada isimde, ayni

These things that I photographed -- this tire pile here

Bunlar fortografini cektigim seyler -- bu tekerlek yigini

had 45 million tires in it. It was the largest one.

icinde 45 milyon tekerlek var. Bu en buyugu.

It was only about an hour-and-a-half away from me, and it caught fire

Benden yanlizca 1.5 saatlik mesafede idi ve yangin oldu

about four years ago. It's around Westley, California, around Modesto.

yaklasik dort yil once. Californiya eyalentinde wesley Modesto civarlarinda.

And I decided to start looking at something that, to me, had --

Ve baska bir seye bakmaya karar verdim, bu sey bana kalirsa --

if the earlier work of looking at the landscape

eger daha onceki peyzaja bakma isi

had a sense of lament to what we were doing to nature,

dogaya yaptigmiz seye agit gibiyse,

in the recycling work that you're seeing here

burada gordugunuz geridonusum isinde

was starting to point to a direction. To me, it was our redemption.

bir noktaya isaret etmeye basliyor. Bana kalirsa, bizim kefaretimiz.

That in the recycling work that I was doing,

Genidonusum isinde yaptigim,

I'm looking for a practice, a human activity that is sustainable.

bir eyleme bakmak, kendi kendine yetebilen insan aktivitesine.

That if we keep putting things, through industrial and urban existence,

Endustriyel ve sehirsel varligimizkla bir seyleri gondermeye devam edersek,

back into the system --

sisteme geri gondermeye --

if we keep doing that -- we can continue on.

eger bunu yapmaya devam edersek -- ozaman devam edebiliriz.

Of course, listening at the conference,

Tabiki, conferansta dinledikce,

there's many, many things that are coming. Bio-mimicry,

bircok sey geliyor. Bio -mimicry,

and there's many other things that are coming on stream --

ve daha bircok sey gundemde --

nanotechnology that may also prevent us from having

nanoteknoloji bizim

to go into that landscape and tear it apart.

dogaya gitme ve onu mahvetmeizi engelleyebilir.

And we all look forward to those things.

Ve biz bunlar icin sabirsizlaniyoruz.

But in the meantime, these things are scaling up.

Fakat ayni zamanda, bu seyler ayni oranda yukseliyor.

These things are continuing to happen.

Bunlar olmaya devam ediyor.

What you're looking at here -- I went to Bangladesh,

Burada goruyorsunuz --- ben Bangladese gittim

so I started to move away from North America;

Kuzey Amerikadan uzaklasmaya basladim;

I started to look at our world globally.

dunyaya global olarak bakmaya basladim.

These images of Bangladesh

Bunlar Bangladesin rfotograflari

came out of a radio program I was listening to.

dinledigim bir radyo programindan geliyor.

They were talking about Exxon Valdez,

Exxon Valdez hakkinda konusuyorlardi,

and that there was going to be a glut of oil tankers

ve azlasiyla petrol tankeri olacagini

because of the insurance industries.

sigorta endustrileri nedeniyle.

And that those oil tankers needed to be decommissioned,

Ve bu petrol tankerlerinin tedavulden kalkmalari gerektigini

and 2004 was going to be the pinnacle.

ve 2004 yilinin zorve olacagini

And I thought, "My God, wouldn't that be something?"

Ve ben kendikendime dusundumki "Aman Allahim, bu birsey olmaz mi? "

To see the largest vessels of man being deconstructed by hand,

Insanlarin en genis damarlarinin elle parcalara ayrilmasini gormek,

literally, in third-world countries.

gercekten, 3. dunya ulkelerinde.

So originally I was going to go to India.

Aslinda Hindistana gidiyordum.

And I was shut out of India because of a Greenpeace situation there,

Ve Greenpeace durumundan oturu Hindistandan atilmistim,

and then I was able to get into Bangladesh,

ve sonrasinda Bangladese gidebildim,

and saw for the first time a third world, a view of it,

ve ilk kez 3. dunyayi gordum, ondan bir manzara,

that I had never actually thought was possible.

asla mumkun olmadigini dusundugum.

130 million people living in an area the size of Wisconsin --

Wisconsin buyuklugunde bir yerde 130 milyon insan yasiyordu --

people everywhere -- the pollution was intense,

heryerde insanlar -- kirlilik inanilmazdi,

and the working conditions were horrible.

ve calisma kosullari korkunctu.

Here you're looking at some oil fields in California,

Burada Californiyada petrol arazilarine bakiyorsunuz,

some of the biggest oil fields. And again, I started to think that --

en buyuk petrol arazilerinden. Ve yine, dusunmeye basladim --

there was another epiphany --

baska bir tezahur vardi --

that the whole world I was living in was

icinde yasadigim dunya

a result of having plentiful oil.

fazlasiyla petrolun olusundan oturu idi.

And that, to me, was again something that I started building on,

Ve bu, bana kalirsa, uzerine insa etmeye basladigim bir sey,

and I continued to build on.

ve insa etmeye devam ettim.

So this is a series I'm hoping to have ready

Yani bu hazir olmasini umdugumbir seri yaklasik

in about two or three years,

iki yada üç yıl içinde,

under the heading of "The Oil Party."

"Petrol Partisi" adi altinda.

Because I think everything that we're involved in --

Cunku bence mesgul oldugumuz hersey --

our clothing, our cars, our roads, and everything -- are directly a result.

giysilerimiz, arabalarimiz, yollarimiz ve hersey -- direkt olarak bir sonuc.

I'm going to move to some pictures of China.

Cinden fotograflara gececegim.

And for me China -- I started photographing it four years ago,

Ve bana kalirsa Cin -- 4 yil once fotograflamaya basladim,

and China truly is a question of sustainability in my mind,

ve Cin benim kafamda gercekten kendi kendine yetebilirlik sorusu,

not to mention that China, as well,

bunun yani sira Cin, ayni zamanda,

has a great effect on the industries that I grew up around.

etrafinda buyudugum endustriler uzerinde buyuk etkiye sahip.

I came out of a blue-collar town,

Ben bir mavi-yaka sehrinden geldim,

a GM town, and my father worked at GM,

bir GM (General Motors) sehri, ve babam GM de calisti,

so I was very familiar with that kind of industry

yani ben bu tip bir entustriye asinayim

and that also informed my work. But you know,

ve bu benim isime yansidi. Fakat bilirsiniz,

to see China and the scale at which it's evolving, is quite something.

Cini ve gelisme boyutunu gormek, cok sey.

So what you see here is the Three Gorges Dam,

Burada gordugunuz There Gorges Dam (Üç Boğaz Barajı),

and this is the largest dam by 50 percent ever attempted by man.

ve bu yuzde elli insan eliyle yapilmis en buyuk baraj.

Most of the engineers around the world left the project

Dunyadaki bircok muhendis projeyi birakti

because they said, "It's just too big."

cunku "bu sadece cok buyuk" dediler

In fact, when it did actually fill with water a year and a half ago,

Aslinda, 1.5 yil evvel aslinda su ile doldugunda,

they were able to measure a wobble within the earth as it was spinning.

su dondunkce toprakta bir titresim olcebildiler.

It took fifteen days to fill it.

dolmasi 15 gun surdu.

So this created a reservoir 600 kilometers long,

Yani bu 600 kilometre uzunlugunbda bir rezervuar olusturdu,

one of the largest reservoirs ever created.

yapilan en buyuk rezervuarlardan biri.

And what was also one of the bigger projects around that

Ve bunun etrafindaki buyuk projelerden birisi

was moving 13 full-size cities up out of the reservoir,

13 tam boyutta sehrin rezervuarin yolundan kaldirilmasi,

and flattening all the buildings so they could make way for the ships.

ve butun yapilarin yikilmasi boylece gemilere yol yapilmasiydi.

This is a "before and after." So that was before.

Bu oncesi ve sonrasi. Evet bu oncesi.

And this is like 10 weeks later, demolished by hand.

Ve bu 10 hafta sonrasi, insan eliyle yok edildi.

I think 11 of the buildings they used dynamite,

Yanilmiyorsam 11 yapi icin dinamit kullandilar,

everything else was by hand. That was 10 weeks later.

onun disinda hersey elle. Bu 10 hafta sonrasi.

And this gives you an idea.

Ve bu size bir fikir veriyor.

And it was all the people who lived in those homes,

Ve o evlerde yasayan butun insanlar,

were the ones that were actually taking it apart

aslinda yikimi yapan onlardi

and working, and getting paid per brick to take their cities apart.

ve calisan, ve sehirlerini yikmak icin tugla basina odeme alan.

And these are some of the images from that.

Ve bunlar ondan bazi fotograflar.

So I spent about three trips to the Three Gorges Dam,

Evet Three Gorges Dam'e üç yolculuk yaptim,

looking at that massive transformation of a landscape.

yeryuzunuz devasa donusumune baktim.

And it looks like a bombed-out landscape, but it isn't.

Bombalanmis bir yer gibi duruyor ama aslinda degil.

What it is, it's a landscape that is an intentional one.

Bu ne, bilincli yapilmis bir peyzaj.

This is a need for power, and they're willing to go through this

Bu güce olan ihtiyac, ve onlar bunu goze aliyorlar

massive transformation, on this scale, to get that power.

devasa donusum, bu derece, o gücü alabilmek icin.

And again, it's actually a relief for what's going on in China

Ve yine, bu aslinda Cinde olan olaylar icin bir rahatlama

because I think on the table right now,

cunku yanilmiyorsam su anda masada,

there's 27 nuclear power stations to be built.

27 adet nukleer güç istasyonu insa edilmeyi bekliyor.

There hasn't been one built in North America for 20 years

Kuzey Amerikada son 20 yilda bir tane bile insa edilmedi

because of the "NIMBY" problem -- "Not In My BackYard."

"BABO" promlemi yuzunden -- "Benim Arka Bahcemde Olmaz."

But in China they're saying, "No, we're putting in 27 in the next 10 years."

Fakat Cinde diyorlarki, " Hayir biz gelecek on yilda 27 tane koyuyoruz."

And coal-burning furnaces are going in there

Ve komur yakan endustriyel firinlar oraya gidiyor

for hydroelectric power literally weekly.

hidroelektrik güç icin, neredeyse her hafta.

So coal itself is probably one of the largest problems.

Yani komur baslibasina en buyuk problemlerden biri.

And one of the other things that happened in the Three Gorges --

Ve Three Gorges te olan seylerden bir tanesi --

a lot of the agricultural land that you see there on the left was also lost;

sol tarafta gordugunuz bircok tarimsal alan da yok oldu;

some of the most fertile agricultural land was lost in that.

en verimli arazilerin bir mi bunun icinde kayip oldu.

And 1.2 to 2 million people were relocated,

1.2 ila 25 milyon insan yeniden yerlestirildi,

depending on whose statistics you're looking at.

kimin istatistiklerine baktiginiza gore.

And this is what they were building.

Ve bu insa ettikleri sey.

This is Wushan, one of the largest cities that was relocated.

Bu Wushan, yeniden yerlestirilen en buyuk sehirlerden biri.

This is the town hall for the city.

Burasi sehrin belediye binasi.

And again, the rebuilding of the city -- to me, it was sad to see

Ve yine, sehrin yeniden insasi -- bana kalirsa, görmek üzücüydü

that they didn't really grab a lot of, I guess,

galiba onlar fazla esinlenmedi

what we know here, in terms of urban planning.

bizim burada sehir planlama anlaminnda bildiklerimizden.

There were no parks; there were no green spaces.

Parklar yoktu; yesil alanlar yoktu.

Very high-density living on the side of a hill.

Tepenin eteginde cok jkala balik bir yasam alani.

And here they had a chance to rebuild cities from the bottom up,

Ve burada bastan assagi sehirleri yeniden insa etme sanslari vardi,

but somehow were not connecting with them.

fakar bir sekilde onlarla baglandti kuramadilar.

Here is a sign that, translated, says, "Obey the birth control law.

Burada bir isaret var, cevirisi soyle, "Aile planlamasi kurallarina uyun.

Build our science, civilized and advanced idea of marriage and giving birth."

Bilimimizi,uygar ve gelismis evlilik, ureme anlayisimizi insa edin."

So here, if you look at this poster,

Ve burada, bu postere bakarsaniz,

it has all the trappings of Western culture.

Bati kulturunun bvutun ziynetleri var.

You're seeing the tuxedos, the bouquets.

Burada smokinler, buketler goruyorsunuz.

But what's really, to me, frightening about the picture

Fakat bana kalirsa bu resimle ilgili en korkutucu sey

and about this billboard is the refinery in the background.

ve bu bilbord hakkinda en korkutucu sey arka plandaki aritma tehsisi.

So it's like marrying up all the things that we have

Yani bu elimizdeki herseyi evlendirmek

and it's an adaptation of our way of life, full stop.

ve bu bizim yasam bicimimize bir adaptasyon, nokta.

And again, when you start seeing that kind of embrace,

Ve yine, bu tip bir kabullenmeyi gormeye basladiginizda,

and you start looking at them leading their rural lifestyle

ve onlarin koylu yasam bicimlerini surdurmeye devam ettiklerini gormeye basladigimizda

with a very, very small footprint and moving into an urban lifestyle

çok çok küçük bir ayak iziyle ve cağdas bir yaşam bicimine gecmeyelerini

with a much higher footprint, it starts to become very sobering.

cok daha buyuk bir ayak iziyle, cok uyandirici oluyor.

This is a shot in one of the biggest squares in Guangdong --

Bu Guangdong un en buyuk meydanlarindan birinin fotografi --

and this is where a lot of migrant workers are coming in from the country.

ve burasi koylerden gelen iscilerin bulundugu yer.

And there's about 130 million people in migration

Ve burada 130 milyon insan gocmen

trying to get into urban centers at all times,

sehir merkezlerine gitmeye calisiyorlar,

and in the next 10 to 15 years, are expecting

gelecek 10 15 yil icerisinde, tahminlere gore

another 400 to 500 million people to migrate

400 ila 500 milyon insanin gocmesi

into the urban centers like Shanghai and the manufacturing centers.

Sanghai ve uretim merkezleri gibi yerlere (gocmesi bekleniyor).

The manufacturers are --

Uretim yerleri --

the domestics are usually -- you can tell a domestic factory by the fact

yerliler genelde -- domestik bir fabrikayi anlayabilirsiniz

that they all use the same color uniforms.

hepsi ayni renk uniformalari kullaniyrolar.

So this is a pink uniform at this factory. It's a shoe factory.

Burasi pembe uniforma fabrikasi. Bu bir ayakkabi fabrikasi.

And they have dorms for the workers.

Ve calisanlar icin yurtlari var.

So they bring them in from the country and put them up in the dorms.

Yani onlari koylerden getirip yurtlara yerlestiryorlar.

This is one of the biggest shoe factories, the Yuyuan shoe factory

Bu en buyuk ayakkabi fabrikasi, Yuyuyan ayakkabi fabrikasi.

near Shenzhen. It has 90,000 employees making shoes.

Shanzen yakinlarinda, 90,000 isci ayakkabi yapiyor.

This is a shift change, one of three.

Bu bir nobet degisimi, üçünden biri.

There's two factories of this scale in the same town.

Ayni sehirde bu olcude iki adet fabrika var.

This is one with 45,000, so every lunch,

Bu 45,000 den bir tanesi, yani her oglen yemeginde,

there's about 12,000 coming through for lunch.

12,000 kisi yemege geliyor.

They sit down; they have about 20 minutes.

Oturuyorlar, yaklasik 20 dakikalari var.

The next round comes in. It's an incredible workforce

Diger boluk geliyor. Inanilmaz bir işgücü.

that's building there. Shanghai --

oradaki bina. Shanghai --

I'm looking at the urban renewal in Shanghai,

Shanghai deki kentsel donusume bakiyorum,

and this is a whole area that will be flattened

ve burasi duzlenecek buyuk bir alan

and turned into skyscrapers in the next five years.

gelecek 5 yilda gokdelenlere donusecek.

What's also happening in Shanghai is --

Sanghayda olan baska bir sey ise --

China is changing because this wouldn't have happened

Cin degisiyor cunku bu bes sene evvel mumkun olmazdi

five years ago, for instance. This is a holdout.

(bes sene) ornek olarak. Bu bir bekleme.

They're called dengzahoos -- they're like pin tacks to the ground.

Dengzahoos olarak adlandiriliyorlar -- yeredeki sikkeler gibiler.

They won't move. They're not negotiating.

Hareket etmeyecekler. Pazarlik yapmiyorlar.

They're not getting enough, so they're not going to move.

Yeterince almiyorlar, dolayisiyla hareket etmeyecekler.

And so they're holding off until they get a deal with them.

Ve anlasmaya varana kadar bekletiyorlar.

And they've been actually quite successful in getting better deals

Ve iyi anlasmalar almakta oldukca basarililar

because most of them are getting a raw deal.

cunku bircogu cig anlasmaya variyorlar.

They're being put out about two hours --

Yaklasik iki saat boyunca disarida bekletiliyorlar

the communities that have been around for literally hundreds of years,

yuzlerce yildir etrafinda bulunduklari topluluklardan,

or maybe even thousands of years,

belkide binlerce yil,

are being broken up and spread across in the suburban areas

yikiliyor ve baska yerlere dagitiliyor

outside of Shanghai. But these are a whole series of guys

Shanghai disinda. Fakat butun bu insanlar

holding out in this reconstruction of Shanghai.

Sanhayin yeniden insasini sabirla bekliyorlar.

Probably the largest urban-renewal project, I think,

Muhtemelen en buyuk kentsel donusum projesi, bana kalirsa

ever attempted on the planet.

dunya uzerinde girisimde bulunulan.

And then the embrace of the things that they're replacing it with --

Ve sonrasinda degiltirdikleri seylekrin kabullenilmesi --

again, one of my wishes, and I never ended up going there,

yine, dileklerimden bir tanesi, ve oraya gidemedim,

was to somehow tell them that there were better ways to build a house.

bir sekilde onlara bir ev insa etmenin daha iyi yollari oldugunu anlatmak.

The kinds of collisions of styles and things were quite something,

Stillerin cakismasi ve aslinda bir seylere degmesi

and these are called the villas.

ve bunlar villlalar olarak adlandiriliyor.

And also, like right now, they're just moving.

Ve yine, su anda, sadece hareket ediyorlar.

The scaffolding is still on, and this is an e-waste area,

Iskele halen ayakta, ve bu bir e-atik alani,

and if you looked in the foreground on the big print,

ve bu buyuk resimdeki onplana bakarsaniz,

you'd see that the industry -- their industry -- they're all recycling.

goreceksinizki endustrileri -- onlarin endustrileri -- onlarin hepsi geri donusum yapiyor.

So the industry's already growing

Yani endustriler zaten buyuyor

around these new developments.

bu yeni yapilasmalarda.

This is a five-level bridge in Shanghai.

Bu Sangayda 5 katli bir kopru.

Shanghai was a very intriguing city -- it's exploding on a level

Sangay cok merak uyandirici bir sehirdi -- Patliyor

that I don't think any city has experienced.

daha once hic bir sehire olmadigi kadar.

In fact, even Shenzhen, the economic zone --

Aslinda, Senzen dahi, ekonomik bolge --

one of the first ones -- 15 years ago was about 100,000 people,

ilklerden biri -- 15 yil once100,000 insan,

and today it boasts about 10 to 11 million.

ve bugun 10 ila 11 milyona ulasiyor.

So that gives you an idea of the kinds of migrations and the speed with which --

Ve bununla gocme cesitlerini ve hizini anlayabilirsiniz --

this is just the taxis being built by Volkswagen.

bu sadece Volkswagen tarafindan uretilen taksiler.

There's 9,000 of them here,

Burada 9,000 tanesi var,

and they're being built for most of the big cities,

ve genelde buyuk sehirler icin uretiliyorlar,

Beijing and Shanghai, Shenzhen.

Pekin ve Sangay, Senzen.

And this isn't even the domestic car market; this is the taxi market.

Ve bu yerli araba marketi bile degil; be taksi marketi.

And what we would see here as a suburban development --

Ve burada gordugumuz varos bir yerleske --

a similar thing, but they're all high-rises.

benzer senaryo, fakat hepsi yuksek binalar.

So they'll put 20 or 40 up at a time,

Ve bir seferde 20 ila 40 tane insa edecekler,

and they just go up in the same way

ve ayni sekilde yukselecekler

as a single-family dwelling would go up here in an area.

tek bir aile yapisinin burada yukseldigi gibi.

And the density is quite incredible.

Ve yogunluk inanilmaz.

And one of the things in this picture that I wanted to point out

Ve bu resimde belirtmek istedigim bir nnokta

is that when I saw these kinds of buildings,

boyle binalar gordugum zaman

I was shocked to see

suna sok olmustum

that they're not using a central air-conditioning system;

merkezi havalandirma (klima) sistemi kullanmiyorlar;

every window has an air conditioner in it.

her bir pencerenin kendi icinde havalandirma sistemi var.

And I'm sure there are people here who probably

Ve eminimki burada bazi insanlar

know better than I do about efficiencies,

effektiflik durumunu benden daha iyi bilyorlardir,

but I can't imagine that every apartment having its own air conditioner

fakat her apartmanin kendi havalandirma sistemi oldugunu hayal edemiyorum

is a very efficient way to cool a building on this scale.

boyle bir binayi sogutmak icin cok effektif bir yontem

And when you start looking at that,

Ve buna bakmaya basladiginizda,

and then you start factoring up into a city the size of Shanghai,

Sangay buyuklugundeki bir sehire fabrika gibi insa etmeye basladiginnizda,

it's literally a forest of skyscrapers.

bu gercekten gokdelen ormani.

It's breathtaking, in terms of the speed at which this city is transforming.

Bu nefes kesici, bu sehrin donusum hizini goze aldiginizda.

And you can see in the foreground of this picture,

Ve bu resmin onunde gorebilirsiniz,

it's still one of the last areas that was being held up.

burasi donusturulmeyen alanlardan birtanesi.

Right now that's all cleared out -- this was done about eight months ago --

Su anda hepsi temizlendi -- yaklasik 8 ay evvel --

and high-rises are now going up into that central spot.

ve yuksek binalar simdi merkezi noktaya dogru ilerliyor.

So a skyscraper is built, literally, overnight in Shanghai.

Yani Sangayda bir gokdelen kelimenin tam anlamiyla bir gecede insa ediliyor.

Most recently I went in, and I started looking

Yakin gecmiste gittim ve bakmaya basladim

at some of the biggest industries in China.

Cindeki en buyun endustrilerden birine.

And this is Baosteel, right outside of Shanghai.

Ve bu Baosteel, Sangayin hemen disinda.

This is the coal supply for the steel factory -- 18 square kilometers.

Bu fabrikanin komur deposu -- 18 kilometre kare.

It's an incredibly massive operation, I think 15,000 workers,

Bu inanilmaz derecede devasa bir operasyon, yanilmiyorsam 15,000 isci,

five cupolas, and the sixth one's coming in here.

bes kasa ve altincisi buraya geliyor.

So they're building very large blast furnaces

Yani cok buyuk patlama firinlari insa ediyorlar

to try to deal with the demand for steel in China.

Cinde demir icin olan taleple basa cikabilmek icin

So this is three of the visible blast furnaces within that shot.

Ve bu gorunurdeki firinlardan üç tanesi.

And again, looking at these images, there's this constant, like, haze that you're seeing.

Ve yine, bu resimlere bakarken, gorunen devamli bir sis var.

This is going to show you, real time, an assembler. It's a circuit breaker.

Bu size es zamanli bir birlestirici gosterecek. Bu devre kiricisi.

10 hours a day at this speed.

Gunde 10 saat buhizla.

I think one of the issues

Bana kalirsa

that we here are facing with China,

Cinde onumuze cikan problemlerden biri

is that they're using a lot of the latest production technology.

en son uretim teknolojisini kullaniyor olmalari.

In that one, there were 400 people that worked on the floor.

Bunda 400 kisi yerde calisiyor

And I asked the manager to point out five of your fastest producers,

Ve ben 5 tane en hizli ureticlerini gostermesi icin sefe ricada bulundum,

and then I went and looked at each one of them for about 15 or 20 minutes,

ve sonrasinda gitim ve herbirine 15 ila 20 dakika boyunca baktim,

and picked this one woman.

ve bu kadini sectim.

And it was just lightning fast;

Ve gercekten simsek gibiydi;

the way she was working was almost unbelievable.

calisma bicimi neredeyse inanilmazdi.

But that is the trick that they've got right now,

Fakat bu su anda ellerinde olan numara,

that they're winning with, is that they're using

bununla kazaniyorlar,

all the latest technologies and extrusion machines,

en son teknolojileri ve ekstrüzyon makinelerini kullaniyorlar,

and bringing all the components into play,

ve butun bilesenleri oyuna sokuyorlar,

but the assembly is where they're actually bringing in --

fakat birlesim aslinda yaptiklari sey --

the country workers are very willing to work. They want to work.

koyluler calismaya istekli. Calismak istiyorlar.

There's a massive backlog of people wanting their jobs.

devasa bir birikim var insanlar islerini istiyorlar.

That condition's going to be there for the next 10 to 15 years

Bu durum gelecek 10 ila 15 yil boyunca orada olacak

if they realize what they want, which is, you know,

eger ne istediklerini anlarlarsa, bilirsiniz

400 to 500 million more people coming into the cities.

400 ila 5001 milyon insan daha sehirlere geliyor.

In this particular case -- this is the assembly line that you saw;

Bu durumda -- bu gordugunuz birlestirme bolumu;

this is a shot of it.

bu ondan bir kare.

I had to use a very small aperture to get the depth of field.

Cok küçük bir cap kullanmak zorunda kaldim alanin derinligini alabilmak icin.

I had to have them freeze for 10 seconds to get this shot.

Onlari 10 saniyeligine sabit birakmak zorunda kaldim bu kareyi alabilmak icin.

It took me five fake tries

5 kere basarisiz deneme yapmak zorunda kaldim

because they were just going. To slow them down was literally impossible.

cunku sadece gidiyorlardi. onlari yavaslatmak imkansizdi.

They were just wound up doing these things all day long,

Onlar sadece bunlari butun gun bitirmek icin,

until the manager had to, with a stern voice, say,

yonetici kati bir sesle,

"Okay, everybody freeze."

"Evet, herkez donsun" diyene kadar.

It wasn't too bad,

Cokta kotu degildi,

but they're driven to produce these things at an incredible rate.

fakat bunlari inanilmaz hizla uretmeye baglilar.

This is a textile mill doing synthetic silk, an oil byproduct.

Bu bir tekstil mili sentetik ipek, petrol yanurunu.

And what you're seeing here is,

Ve burada gordugunuz,

again, one of the most state-of-the-art textile mills.

yine, son teknoloji tekstik mili.

There are 500 of these machines; they're worth about 200,000 dollars each.

Burada 500 tane makina var; herbiri 200,000 dolar civarinda.

So you have about 12 people running this,

Ve 12 kisi bunu isletiyor,

and they're just inspecting it -- and they're just walking the lines.

ve onlar sadece bunu kontrol ediyorlar -- ve sacede komutlari takip ediyorlar.

The machines are all running,

Butun makineler calisiyor,

absolutely incredible to see what the scale of industries are.

bu endustrilerin olceklerini gormek inanilmaz birsey.

And I started getting in further and further into the factories.

Ve sonrasida fabrikalara daha fazla ilgilenmeye basladim.

And that's a diptych. I do a lot of pairings

Ve bu iki yonlu bir resim. Ben bircok eslestirmeler yapiyorum

to try and get the sense of scale in these places.

bu yerlerin olceklerinin hissini vermek icin.

This is a line where they get the threads

Burasi dislilerin yapildigi bolum

and they wind the threads together,

ve dislileri beraber sogutuyorlar,

pre-going into the textile mills.

tekstil millerine gidiyor.

Here's something that's far more labor-intensive,

Burada daha insan gücüne ihtiyac duyulan baska bir sey var,

which is the making of shoes.

Ayakkabilarin yapimi.

This floor has about 1,500 workers on this floor.

Bu katta yaklasik 1,500 calisan var.

The company itself had about 10,000 employees,

Fabrikanin 10,000 tane calisani var,

and they're doing domestic shoes.

ve yerli ayakkabilari yapiyorlar,

It was very hard to get into the international companies

Uluslararasi sirketlerin icine girmek cok zor

because I had to get permission from companies like Nike and Adidas,

cunku Nike ve Addidas gibi fabrikalardan izin almam gerekiyordu,

and that's very hard to get.

ve bunu almak cok zor.

And they don't want to let me in.

Ve onlar benim iceri girmemi istemiyorlar.

But the domestic was much easier to do.

Fakat yerli olana girmek cok daha kolay.

It just gives you a sense of, again -- and that's where,

Size yeniden soyle bir izlenim veriyor -- ve bu,

really, the whole migration of jobs started going over to China

gercekten, bu gocmen calisanlarin Cinde baslama noktasi

and making the shoes. Nike was one of the early ones.

ve ayakkabi yapimi. Nike en once oraya gidenlerden.

It was such a high labor component to it

Cok yuksek bir isci faktoru var

that it made a lot of sense to go after that labor market.

boylelikle isci pazarinin ardindan gitmek mantikli oldu.

This is a high-tech mobile phone: Bird mobile phone,

Bu yuksek teknoloji cep telefonu: Kus cep telefonu,

one of the largest mobile makers in China.

Cindeki en buyuk cep telefonu yapicilarindan.

I think mobile phone companies

Bana kalirsa cep telefonu fabrikalari

are popping up, literally, on a weekly basis,

ortaya cikiyor, tam anlamiyla, haftalik olarak,

and they have an explosive growth in mobile phones.

ve cep telefonlarinda patlama gibi buyume yaniyor.

This is a textile where they're doing shirts --

Burasi gomlek yapilan tekstil --

Youngor, the biggest shirt factory and clothing factory in China.

Youngor, Cindeki en buyuk gomlek ve elbise fabrikasi.

And this next shot here is one of the lunchrooms.

Ve buradki bir sonraki kare yemekhanelerden bir tanesi.

Everything is very efficient.

Hersek cok effektif.

While setting up this shot,

Bu fotografi kurarken,

people on average would spend eight to 10 minutes having a lunch.

insanlar oglen yemegi icin oratalama 8-10 dakika harciyorlardi.

This was one of the biggest factories I've ever seen.

Bu ozamana kadar gordugum en buyuk fabrikalardan bir tanesi idi.

They make coffeemakers here, the biggest coffeemaker

Burada kahve makineleri yapiyorlar, en buyuk kahve makinesi

and the biggest iron makers --

ve en buyuk demir makineleri --

they make 20 million of them in the world.

Dunyadaki 20 milyon kahve makinasi burada yapiliyor.

There's 21,000 employees. This one factory -- and they had several of them --

21,000 iscisi var. Bu bir fabrika -- ve bunlardan birkac tane var --

is half a kilometer long.

bu yarim kilometre uzunlugunda.

These are just recently shot -- I just came back about a month ago,

Bunlar yakinda cekildi -- sadece 1 ay once geri geldim,

so you're the first ones to be seeing these,

yani bunlari ilk goren sizlersiniz,

these new factory pictures I've taken.

bunlar yeni cektigim fabrika resimleri.

So it's taken me almost a year to gain access into these places.

Yani buraya girmek icin izin almak bana bir yila mal oldu.

The other aspect of what's happening in China

Cinde olanlarin baska boyutu ise

is that there's a real need for materials there.

burada materyallere gercekten ihtiyac duyulmasi.

So a lot of the recycled materials that are collected here

Evet bircok geridonusturulmus materyal burada toplaniyor

are being recycled and taken to China by ships.

geri donustuluyor ve Cine gemilerle yollaniyor.

That's cubed metal. This is armatures, electrical armatures,

Bu kupler halinde metal. Bunlar armaturler, elektriksel armaturler,

where they're getting the copper and the high-end steel

bunlardan yuksel kalite demir veya bakir elde ediyorlar

from electrical motors out, and recycling them.

elektrik motorlari cikariyor ve geri donusume dahil ediyorlar.

This is certainly connected to California and Silicon Valley.

Bu kesinlikle Kaliforniyadaki Silkon Vadisi ile iliskili.

But this is what happens to most of the computers.

Fakat bir cok bilgisayara olan bu.

Fifty percent of the world's computers end up in China to be recycled.

Dunyadaki bilgisayarlarin yuzde ellisi geridonusum icin Cine gidiyor.

It's referred to as "e-waste" there.

Orada "e-atik" olarak nitelendiriliyor.

And it is a bit of a problem. The way they recycle the boards

Ve biraz problemli. Tablolari geri donusturme sekilleri

is that they actually use the coal briquettes,

aslinda komur biriketleri kullaniyorlar,

which are used all through China, but they heat up the boards,

Butun cinde kullaniliyor, fakat tablolari isitiyorlar,

and with pairs of pliers they pull off all the components.

ve istifleyici ciftlerle bilesenleri cikariyorlar.

They're trying to get all the valued metals out of those components.

Butun degerli metalleri cikarmaya calisiyorlar.

But the toxic smells -- when you come into a town

Fakat toksik kokular -- bir sehire gittiginiz zaman

that's actually doing this kind of burning of the boards,

sehirde tablolar yakiliyorsa,

you can smell it a good five or 10 kilometers before you get there.

sehire girmeden 5 ya da 10 kilometre once kokuyu hissedebilirsiniz.

Here's another operation. It's all cottage industries,

Buda baska bir operasyo. Bu yazlik ev endustrisi,

so it's not big places -- it's all in people's front porches,

yani cok buyuk yerler degil -- hersey insanlarin on bahcelerinde,

in their backyards, even in their homes they're burning boards,

arka bahcelerinde, hatta evlerinin icinde tablolari yakiyorlar,

if there's a concern for somebody coming by --

eger gelen birine dair bir endise varsa --

because it is considered in China to be illegal, doing it,

cunku Cinde bunlari yapmak yasalara aykiri,

but they can't stop the product from coming in.

fakan urunlerin gelisini engelleyemiyorlar.

This portrait -- I'm not usually known for portraits,

Bu portre -- ben genelde portrelerlerim yuzunden taninmam,

but I couldn't resist this one, where she's been through Mao,

fakat buna direnebilirim, o Mao yu gormus,

and she's been through the Great Leap Forward,

ve Great Leap Forward (Buyuk iileri atilim ) i gormus,

and the Cultural Revolution, and now she's sitting on her porch

ve Cultural Revolution (Kulturel Degisimi)

with this e-waste beside her. It's quite something.

Ve bu e-atik yanibasinda. Bu birseyler anlatiyor.

This is a road where it's been shored up by computer boards

Burasi bilgisayar tablolarindan olusmus bir yol

in one of the biggest towns where they're recycling.

geridonusum yapilan sehirlerin en buyuklerinden.

So that's the photographs that I wanted to show you.

Evet bunlar sizlere gostermek istedigim fotograflar

(Applause)

(Alkışlar)

I want to dedicate my wishes to my two girls.

Dileklerimi kizlarima addetmek istiyorum.

They've been sitting on my shoulder the whole time while I've been thinking.

Bunlari dusunurken omuzlarimda oturuyorlardi

One's Megan, the one of the right, and Katja there.

Bir tanesi Megan, sagda olan, ve Katja orada.

And to me the whole notion --

Ve bence butun fikir --

the things I'm photographing are out of a great concern

fotografladigim seyler endiselerimden oturu

about the scale of our progress and what we call progress.

kalkinmamizin boyutu ve kalkinmak olarak adlandirdigimiz eylem.

And as much as there are great things around the corner --

Koseyi donunce cok buyuk seyler oldugu gibi --

and it's palpable in this room --

ve bu salonda bu asikar --

of all of the things that are just about to break

bulunmak uzere olan hersey

that can solve so many problems,

bircok problemi cozebilecek seyler,

I'm really hoping that those things will spread around the world

gercekten bunlarin dunyaya yayilmasdini umuyorum

and will start to have a positive effect.

ve pozitif bit etki yaratmasini.

And it isn't something that isn't just affecting our world,

Ve sadece bizim dunyamizi etkileyen birsey degil

but it starts to go up -- because I think we can start correcting

fakat yukariya gitmeye basliyor -- cunku duzeltmeye baslayabilecegimizi dusunuyorum

our footprint and bring it down -- but there's a growing footprint

ayak izimizi ve assagiya dusurebiliriz -- fakat buyuyen bir ayak izi var

that's happening in Asia, and is growing at a rapid, rapid rate,

Bu Asyada oluyor, hizlica , hizli bir oranda, buyuyor

and so I don't think we can equalize it. So ultimately the strategy,

ve bence bunu esitleyemeyiz. Ve tamamen strateji,

I think, here is that we have to be very concerned about their evolution,

Bana kalirsa, burada bizler bunun evriminden dolayyi endise duymaliyiz,

because it is going to be connected to our evolution as well.

cunku bizim evrimimizlede bu bağlantili olacak.

So part of my thinking, and part of my wishes,

Yani benim dusuncemin bir kizmi, ve dileklerimin bir kismi,

is sitting with these thoughts in mind,

bu dusuncelerle kafamda yer aliyor,

and thinking about,

ve hakkinda dusundukce,

"How is their life going to be when they want to have children,

"Onlarin hayatlari kendi cocuklarini istediklerinde nasil olacak,

or when they're ready to get married 20 years from now -- or whatever,

ya da bundan 20 yil sonra evlenmeye karar hazir olduklarinda -- ya da herneyse

15 years from now?"

bundan 15 yil sonra?"

And to me that has been the core behind most of my thinking --

Ve bence

in my work, and also for this incredible chance to have some wishes.

benim isim icin, ve ayrica dilekte bulunmak uzere sunulan bu inanilmaz firsat icin.

Wish one: world-changing. I want to use my images

Dilek bir: dunyayi degistirmek. Resimlerimi kullanmak istiyorum

to persuade millions of people to join in the global conversation on sustainability.

milyonlarca insani kendi kendine yetebilirlik diyaloguna dahil olmaya ikna edebilmek icin.

And it is through communications today

Ve bugunlerde iletisim ile

that I believe that that is not an unreal idea.

bunun mumkun olduguna iunaniyorum.

Oh, and I went in search -- I wanted to put what I had in mind,

Oh, arastirma yaptim -- aklimda olanlari koymak istiyordum,

hitch it onto something. I didn't want a wish just to start from nowhere.

birseyin uzerine baglamak icin. Bir dilegim hicbiryerden baslamasini istemedim.

One of them I'm starting from almost nothing, but the other one,

Bir tanesinde neredeyse hicbbiryerden basliyorum, fakar oburunde,

I wanted to find out what's going on that's working right now.

neler olup bittigini anlamak istedim.

And Worldchanging.com is a fantastic blog, and that blog

Ve Worlchanging.com mukemmel bir blog, ve bu blog

is now being visited by close to half-a-million people a month.

yaklasik ayda yarim milyon insan tarafindan ziyaret ediliyor.

And it just started about 14 months ago.

Ve sadece 14 ay evvel baslatildi.

And the beauty of what's going on there

Ve burada olan guzel sey ise

is that the tone of the conversation is the tone that I like.

iletisimin tonu benim sevdigim turden.

What they're doing there is that they're not --

Burada yaptiklari --

I think the environmental movement has failed

bana kalirsa cevre icin olan örgütlenme basarisizlikla sonuçlandı

in that it's used the stick too much;

ve bu hareket sirasinda damga cfazlasiyla kullanildi;

it's used the apocalyptic tone too much;

vahiysel ton fazlasiyla kullanildi;

it hasn't sold the positive aspects of

pozitif taraflari satilamadi

being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.

cevre hakkinda endiselenmenin (pozitif taraflar).

Whereas this conversation that is going on in this blog

Fakat bu blogda gecen iletisimde

is about positive movements,

potitif hareketler uzerine,

about how to change our world in a better way, quickly.

hizlica dunyamizi nasil daha iyiye cevirebilecegimize dair.

And it's looking at technology, and it's looking at new energy-saving devices,

Ve teknolojiye bakiyor, ve enerji tasarruflu yeni aletlere bakiyor,

and it's looking at how to rethink and how to re-strategize

stratejisini yeniden sekillendirmeye bakiyor

the movement towards sustainability.

kendi kendine yetebilme jarektinin stratejisini.

And so for me, one of the things that I thought

Ve bana kalirsa, dusundugum seylerden bir tanesi

would be to put some of my work in the service of promoting

isimin bir kismini bunu desteklemek icin ortaya koymak

the Worldchanging.com website.

Worldchanging.com websitesini desteklemek icin.

Some of you might know, he's a TEDster -- Stephen Sagmeister and I

Bazilariniz bilir, TEDcilerden Stephen Sagmeister ve ben

are working on some layouts. And this is still in preliminary stages;

bazi modeller uzerine calisiyoruz. Ve bu halen baslangic seviyesinde;

these aren't the finals. But these images, with Worldchanging.com,

bunlar en son halleri degil. Fakat bu resimler, Worldchanging.com ile,

can be placed into any kind of media.

herhangi bir medyaya yerlestirilebilir.

They could be posted through the Web;

Web uzerinden postalanabilir;

they could be used as a billboard or a bus shelter, or anything of that nature.

bilbord ya da otobus duraklarinda kullanilabilir, ya da herhangi bir sekilde.

So we're looking at this as trying to build out.

Yani biz buna bakiyoruz.

And what we ended up discussing

Ve tartistigimiz sey

was that in most media you get mostly an image with a lot of text,

medyada genelde bir resimi bircok yaziyla beraber goruyorsunuz,

and the text is blasted all over.

ve yazi heryerde.

What was unusual, according to Stephen,

Stephen a gore alisilagelmedik olan,

is less than five percent of ads are actually leading with image.

yuzde besten daha az reklamda resimler onu cekiyordu.

And so in this case,

Ve yani bu durumda,

because it's about a lot of these images and what they represent,

cunku bu bircok resimlerde ve sunulan sey,

and the kinds of questions they bring up,

ve getirdikleri soru isretleri,

that we thought letting the images play out and bring someone to say,

resimlerin basrolde olmasina izin vermek ve birilerinin soyle soylemesine

"Well, what's Worldchanging.com, with these images, have to do?"

"Evet, Worldchanging.com nedir, bu resimlerle ne alakasi var?"

And hopefully inspire people to go to that website.

Ve umarim insanlari bu websitesine gitmek icin ikna etmek.

So Worldchanging.com, and building that blog, and it is a blog,

Evet Worldchanging.com ve bu blogu yapmak ve bu bir blog,

and I'm hoping that it isn't -- I don't see it as the kind of blog

ve umuyorumki degildir -- bunu bir cesit

where we're all going to follow each other to death.

birbirimizi olene kadar takip edecegiz seklinde bir blog olarak gormuyorum.

This one is one that will spoke out, and will go out,

Bu konusacak turden, ve yuruyecek,

and to start reaching. Because right now there's conversations

ve ulasmaya baslayacak. Cunku su anda diyaloglar var

in India, in China, in South America --

Hisdistanda, Cinde, Guney Amerikada --

there's entries coming from all around the world.

Dunyanin dort bir yanindan gelen yorumlar var.

I think there's a chance to have a dialogue, a conversation

bana kalirsa bir diyalog icin firsat var,

about sustainability at Worldchanging.com.

Worldchanging.com da kendi kendine yetebilirlik icin bir sohbet (firsati var).

And anything that you can do to promote that would be fantastic.

Ve sizin destekleriniz mukkemmel olur.

Wish two is more of the bottom-up, ground-up one that I'm trying to work with.

Ikinci dilegim daha gercekci , uzendinde calistigim.

And this one is: I wish to launch a groundbreaking competition

Ve bu: iddeali bir yarisma ilan etmek istiyorum

that motivates kids to invest ideas on, and invent ideas on, sustainability.

cocuklari kendi kendine yetebilirlik hakkinda dusunmeye ve fikir uretmeye motive eden.

And one of the things that came out --

Ve gelenlerden bir tanesi --

Allison, who actually nominated me, said something earlier on

Allison aslinda beni nomine eden daha once birsey soyledi

in a brainstorming. She said that recycling in Canada

beyin firtinasi hakkinda. Soyle soyledi Kanadada geridonusum

had a fantastic entry into our psyche through kids between grade four and six.

4 ve 6. sinif cocuklarindan gelen bizim pisikolojimize katkisi olmus.

And you think about it, you know,

Ve bunun hakkinda dusununce, bilirsiniz,

grade four -- my wife and I, we say age seven is the age of reason,

4. sinif -- esim ve ben 7 yasinin neden yasi oldugunu soyluyoruz,

so they're into the age of reason. And they're pre-puberty.

yani onlar neden yasindalar. Ve ergenlik oncesindeler.

So it's this great window where they actually are --

Yani orada buyuk bir firsat va onlar--

you can influence them. You know what happens at puberty?

onlari etkileyebilirsiniz. Ergenlikte neler oldugunu bilirsinz?

You know, we know that from earlier presentations.

Bilirsiniz, daha onceki sunumlardan biliyoruz.

So my thinking here is that we try to motivate those kids

Yani benim buradaki dusuncem biz bu cocuklari motive etmeye calisiyoruz

to start driving home ideas. Let them understand what sustainability is,

fikir yurutmeleri icin. Onlara kendi kendine yetebilirligi anlatalim,

and that they have a vested interest in it to happen.

ve onlarin kazanilmis bir ilgileri olacak.

And one of the ways I thought of doing it is to use my prize,

Ve bunu yapabilmenin bir yoluda benim odulumu kullanmak,

so I would take 30,000 or 40,000 dollars of the winnings,

kazanimlarin 30,000 ya da 40,000 dolarini alirdim,

and the rest is going to be to manage this project,

ve geri kalani bu projeyi yonetmek icin kullanilacak,

but to use that as prizes for kids to get into their hands.

fakat bunu cocuklara odul olarak kullanmak ellerine gecebilmesi icin.

But the other thing that I thought would be fantastic

Fakat mukemmel olacagini dusundugum bir baska sey

was to create these -- call them "prize targets."

bunlari olusturmak -- "odul hedefleri olarak adlandirmak"

And so one could be for the best sustainable idea

Ve yani bir tanesi en iyi yetinebilirlik odulu icin olabilir

for an in-school project, the best one for a household project,

okul ici bir proje icin, evde yapilma en iyi proje,

or it could be the best community project for sustainability.

yada yetinebilirlik icin sunulmus en iyi toplum projesi

And I also thought there should be a nice prize

Ve bana kalirsa birde iyi odul olmali

for the best artwork for "In My World." And what would happen --

"Benim Dunyamda" icin en iyi sanatsal calisma. Ve neler olur --

it's a scalable thing. And if we can get people to put in things --

bu olceklendirilebilir bir sey. Ve biz eger insanlarin birseyler ortaya koymasini saglarsak --

whether it's equipment, like a media lab,

ekipman gibi, medya laboratuvari gibi,

or money to make the prize significant enough --

ya odulu iyi yapabilecek kadar para --

and to open it up to all the schools that are public schools,

ve bunu butun devlet okullarina acmak,

or schools that are with kids that age,

ya a o yasta olan cocuklarin bulundugu okullara,

and make it a wide-open competition for them

ve onlar icin acik bir yarisma haline getirebilmek

to go after those prizes and to submit them.

o odullerin arkasindan gitmek ve onlari gondermek.

And the prize has to be a verifiable thing, so it's not about just ideas.

Ve odul onaylanabilir olmali, boylelikle bu yanlizca fikirler hakkinda olmamali

The art pieces are about the ideas and how they present them

Sanat parcalari fikirler ve onlari nasil ifade ettikleri ile alakali

and do them, but the actual things have to be verifiable.

ve yapalim, fakat asil seyler gerceklestirilebilir olmali.

In that way, what's happening is that

Boylece, aslinda olan sey

we're motivating a certain age group to start thinking.

belli bir yas grubunu dusunmeye baslamalari icin motive ediyoruz.

And they're going to push that up, from the bottom -- up into,

Ve onlar bunu yukariya itecekler, dipten -- yukari,

I believe, into the households. And parents will be reacting to it,

Ben hanelere inaniyorum. Ve aileler buna tepki gostereceklerdir,

and trying to help them with the projects.

ve onlara projeleri icin yardim etmeye calisacaklardir.

And I think it starts to motivate the whole idea towards sustainability

Ve bana kalirsa yetinebilirlik fikrini motive etmeye basliyor

in a very positive way,

cok pozitif bir yonden,

and starts to teach them. They know about recycling now,

ve onlara ofretmeye basliyor. Geridonusum hakkinda birseyler biliyorlar su anda,

but they don't really, I think, get sustainability in all the things,

fakat bana kalirsa herseyde kendi kendine yetebilirlik ne anlamiyorlar,

and the energy footprint, and how that matters.

ve enerji ayakizi , ve bu neden onemli.

And to teach them, to me, would be a fantastic wish,

Ve bunu onlara ogretmek bana kalirsa sahane bir dilek,

and it would be something that I would certainly put my shoulder into.

ve bu kesinlikle benim omuzumu koyailecegim bir sey olurdu.

And again, in "In My World," the competition --

Ve yine, "Benim Dunyamda " yarismasinda --

we would use the artwork that comes in from that competition to promote it.

bu yarismadan gelen sanat eserlerini yarismayi desteklemek icin kullanabiliriz.

And I like the words, "in my world,"

Ve "benim dunyamda " kelimelerini seviyorum

because it gives possession of the world to the person who's doing it.

cunku bunu yapan kisiye dunyayi mulk olarak veriyor.

It is my world; it's not someone else's. I want to help it;

Bu benim dunyam; baskasinin degil. Ona yardim etmek istiyorum;

I want to do something with it. So I think it has a great opportunity

Onunla bir sey yapmak istiyorum. Yani bana kalirsa bu muazzam bir firsat

to engage the imaginations -- and great ideas, I think, come from kids --

cocuklardan gelen hayalleri ve cok iyi fikirleri isin icine almak icin --

and engage their imagination into a project,

ve onlarin hayallerini projeye dahil etmeleri,

and do something for schools.

okullar icin birseyler yapmalari.

I think all schools could use extra equipment, extra cash --

Bana kalirsa butun okullar fazla ekipmani, fazla paray kullanabilir --

it's going to be an incentive for them to do that.

bu onlarin bunu yapmari icin tesvik edici bir sey olacak.

And these are some of the ideas in terms of where

Ve bunlar bazi fikirler

we could possibly put in some promotion for "In My World."

"Benim Dunyamda " icin destek toplayabilecegimiz.

And wish three is: Imax film. So I was told I should do one for myself,

Ve üçüncü dilek: Imax filimi. Kendimin icin bir tane yapmam soylendi,

and I've always wanted to actually get involved with doing something.

ve herzaman birseyler yapmaya dahil olmak istemisimdir.

And the scale of my work, and the kinds of ideas I'm playing with --

Ve benim isimin derecesi, ve oynadigim fikirler -

when I first saw an Imax film, I almost immediately thought,

Ilk Imax filimini izledigim zaman, hemen hemen aninda dusundumki,

"There's a real resonance between what I'm trying to do

" Burada yamak istedigim seyle alakali bir benzesme var

and the scale of what I try to do as a photographer."

ve bir fotografci olarak yapmak istedigim seyin derecesi. "

And I think there's a real possibility

Ve bana kalirsa burada gercek bir firsat var

to reach new audiences if I had a chance.

yeni seyircilere ulasabilmek icin , eger firsatim olsaydi.

So I'm looking, really, for a mentor, because I just had my birthday.

Evet bir kilavuz aruyorum cunku yakin gecmiste dogum gunumdu.

I'm 50, and I don't have time to go back to school right now --

50 yasimdayim, ve okula geri donmek icin vakim yok su anda--

I'm too busy. So I need somebody

Cok mesgulum. Yani birilerine ihtiyacim var

who can put me on a quick catch-up course on how to do something like that,

hizli bir kurs ile bana nasil boyle bir sey yapabilecegimi öğretecek,

and lead me through the maze of how one does something like this.

ve bana biirinin nasıl boyle bir sey yapabilecegini gosteren yolda kilavuzluk edecek.

That would be fantastic. So those are my three wishes.

Bu şahane olurdu. Ve bunlar benim üç dilegim.

(Applause)

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