Metin Pur – THE FIRST WEEK
Video portrait by Fadime Demir
29 Apr 25
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Metin Pur – THE FIRST WEEK
Video portrait by Fadime Demir
29 Apr 2025
Video
Metin Pur came to Amsterdam from Turkey in 1970 to work at NDSM. He narrates about his first week at the shipyard, a week full of surprises, misunderstandings, getting used to a new environment, the way of working as well as the work itself.
The audio is only available in Dutch.
Credits:
The video portraits were made by documentary filmmaker Fadime Demir and commissioned by the Amsterdam Museum. They were previously shown during the Amsterdam Museum's 2012 exhibition Turkish Pioneers in Amsterdam.
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