Mehmet Masum Süer

Suer was born on 15 October 1957 in village of Avina (Sürgücü) Mardin, and lives in Diyarbakir, Turkey.

Suer, had to quit actual journalism in 1993 when the conflicts between Turkish security forces and the Kurdish armed organization PKK intensified in the region where he lived.

When he returned to journalism at the 2023, an interview about photographer Suer, published in The Game magazine, of the Germany-based IMAGO Images photo agency.

[1] After Suer left current journalism in 1992, heconducted and published some research on Kurdish language, history and culture.

Meanwhile, in 1996, he founded his first website, introducing the historical city of Hasankeyf and drawing attention to the damages of the dam to be built here.

Suer has taken photographs of historical places and buildings, especially in the cities of Diyarbakir, Mardin, Van and Hasankeyf.