{"id":52,"date":"2012-11-03T21:20:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ranakotan.com\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2012-11-06T22:19:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T22:19:32","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ranakotan.com\/?page_id=52","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ranakotan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Hakkimda3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54 alignleft\" title=\"Hakkimda3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ranakotan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Hakkimda3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ranakotan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Hakkimda3.jpg 950w, http:\/\/www.ranakotan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Hakkimda3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investment banker, pianist, mother\u2026 This would be the right order of my roles, sorted from easy to difficult. When I realized something was missing in my life, I decided to listen to my inner voice. I quit my finance career and looked for things I\u2019m more passionate about. That\u2019s how I found myself walking on the street with my camera. For some reason, I\u2019m absurdly proud of being a Yale graduate street photographer.<\/p>\n<p>I find street life fascinating. I love taking pictures of people who are deeply engaged in what they are doing. The liveliness of the street gives me enormous joy. My aim is to shoot in all metropolitan cities globally.<\/p>\n<p>I attended the Street Photography Workshop instructed by Markus Hartel in New York. Prior to that, I attended the Basics of Photography Course by Ali Ihsan Gokcen and Introductory &amp; Professional photography classes by Muammer Yanmaz.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m passionate about photography. Don\u2019t be afraid of taking the ride towards discovering the authentic power within yourself\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Investment banker, pianist, mother\u2026 This would be the right order of my roles, sorted from easy to difficult. When I realized something was missing in my life, I decided to listen to my inner voice. I quit my finance career and looked for things I\u2019m more passionate about. That\u2019s how I found myself walking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ranakotan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ranakotan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ranakotan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ranakotan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ranakotan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.ranakotan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"http:\/\/www.ranakotan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ranakotan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}