From Instagram to a book deal
Aug 24, 2021
5 minutes
If you are still sceptical about the importance of promoting your photography on social media, Eren Sarigul’s story is a salutary reminder of the doors it can open. Eren, a young Londoner, went from posting images of a trip to Japan on Instagram to getting a book contract to return to the country – with the publisher supporting the trip. The book, Across Japan, was released recently (you may have noticed Japan has been in the news a lot of late) so we caught up with Eren to find out how he got such a great commission so early in his career.
Discovering photography
What’s particularly impressive about Eren is that he had no real background in photography before going to Japan the first time.
‘I wasn’t actually
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