# Léo Yiğit Ekiz > Transdisciplinary builder: photographer, filmmaker, designer and developer, now Director of AI Enablement at FlyRank. Istanbul-born, based in Sarajevo. Léo Yiğit Ekiz works across photography, film, design, web development and AI, and treats them as one practice. Trained as a photographer at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, he spent six years in Italy (University of Udine) and is based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 2006 he apprenticed with, assisted and was a lifelong friend of the Italian photographer Elio Montanari (1944–2025). He is Director of AI Enablement at FlyRank AI and mentors the General AI Fluency track. ## Contact - Email: hi@leoyigit.com - Website: https://leoyigit.com - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9o-yigit-ekiz/) - [GitHub](https://github.com/leoyigit) ## Practice - **Photography** (Since 2004 · Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University): Where it started: the photography department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, then Udine. I still see everything as framing, light and timing. - **Film** (Since 2006 · Video art, dance film, direction, edit): Directing, shooting and cutting: video art shown across Italy, a dance film made with blind and sighted dancers, backstage work on Istanbul film sets. Editing taught me rhythm, and rhythm is in everything I make. - **Design** (IDEALOGY Creative Solutions · Sarajevo): As owner and art director of IDEALOGY Creative Solutions in Sarajevo: identities, campaigns and event visuals for cultural institutions, from Italian film festivals to concerts and conferences. - **Web** (Since 2009 · Sites, storefronts, prototypes): From haifame.it, an idea in 2009 and live by 2011, to storefronts and prototypes today: themes, migrations and interfaces that look the way a designer meant them to. - **AI** (Now · FlyRank AI): Director of AI Enablement at FlyRank AI. I build agents, automations and browser extensions that take repetitive work off people's desks, so they can do the part only people can do. - **Teaching** (Mentoring · Internships · The Leo Method): Mentor of the General AI Fluency track. The method is simple: find something that annoys you in real life, and learn exactly what you need to fix it. It is never too late to start. ## Photography Archive: [https://leoyigit.com/photography](https://leoyigit.com/photography). Each series has its own page: - [Mesopotamia](https://leoyigit.com/photography/mesopotamia) (2006–2007): Southeastern Anatolia in black and white: roads, rivers, ruins and the people along them. Made in my apprentice years with Elio Montanari. 35 frames. - [Vol. I](https://leoyigit.com/photography/vol-1) (2006–2013): Seven years of streets, portraits and weather. The first volume. 75 frames. - [Roma](https://leoyigit.com/photography/roma) (2015): Rome in hard contrast: angels, crowds and long shadows on the cobbles. 13 frames. - [Sogno N°1](https://leoyigit.com/photography/sogno-n1) (2014): Italian towns in colour and fog: towers, stairwells, brick lanes. 22 frames. - [interrogation #008](https://leoyigit.com/photography/interrogation-008) (2013): Faces and hands in the dark, drawn with light. 6 frames. - [Walls of Constantinople](https://leoyigit.com/photography/walls-of-constantinople): The land walls of Istanbul, the city I was born in. 3 frames. - [Italianitudine](https://leoyigit.com/photography/italianitudine) (exhibition catalogue): Exhibition catalogue with my work, from the years in Udine. 8 frames. ## Exhibitions and screenings 14 shows between 2006 and 2013 (full list: https://leoyigit.com/cv): - 2013: D-25 Branemet, Palazzo Contemporaneo. Video art and Performance, Udine, Italy. - 2012: Ricomincio da te. Video art, Udine, Italy. - 2011: Metartevisiva. Video art, Gorizia, Italy. - 2011: Videospritz #6, Rassegna Internazionale di Video Arte, Focus FVG. Video art, Trieste, Italy. - 2011: Ma dici a me. Photography and Video art, Udine, Italy. - 2010: Marittimi abbandonati. Photography, San Giorgio di Nogaro, Italy. - 2010: II. Istanbul International Dance Camera Film Festival. Video art, Istanbul, Türkiye. - 2010: Immaginare il tempo: la paura e il coraggio. Audiovisual, Clauiano, Italy. - 2010: Sticeboris: I love Fark. Audiovisual, Pavia di Udine, Italy. - 2009: Absurdtime II. Photography, Perugia, Italy. - 2009: Absurdtime I. Photography, Perugia, Italy. - 2008: Absurdtime. Photography, Perugia, Italy. - 2008: La consistenza del sogno. Audiovisual, Udine, Italy. - 2006: Istanbul International Dance Camera Film Festival. Video art, Istanbul, Türkiye. - Dance for Camera 07: “Boundaries”, the dance film of The Equinox Project, made with blind and sighted dancers, was selected among the top 20 of 100 dance films. Image director and story: Léo Yiğit Ekiz. Direction: Sibel Lynch. ## Optional - [CV](https://leoyigit.com/cv): experience, education, exhibitions, languages. - [Full text of the site](https://leoyigit.com/llms-full.txt): experience, path, selected work, about, and motto.