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Yusuf Tolga Ünker graduated from the painting department of Istanbul Avni Akyol Anatolian Fine Arts High School and then continued his education at the Painting Department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. After completing his undergraduate studies in 2009, he also pursued his master's degree at the same institution. During his master's studies, he participated in the Erasmus Program and spent the fall semester of 2010-2011 at the Universidad de Castilla La Mancha in Spain. He received pedagogical training at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2013-2014. He gained teaching experience in private institutions and completed his military service in 2014. Between 2017 and 2024, he worked as a research assistant in the graphic design department of Maltepe University Faculty of Fine Arts. He graduated from the Cinema Arts Proficiency Program at Maltepe University Faculty of Fine Arts in 2024. While a student in the Painting Department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Yusuf Tolga Ünker produced works inspired by Byzantine art and El Greco, and graduated with this background. In his works, the influence of Byzantine art is visible not only in the figures but also in the fabrics and other elements. The painter incorporates this influence into his compositions with an expressionist approach. The artist's works possess a unique understanding of painting with vibrant colors and the use of distorted forms. In Ünker's drawings, the use of interwoven hatchings, with a balance between fine and coarse lines, ensures compositional unity and creates an aesthetic structure. The pattern, created by using lines of varying lengths and thicknesses, exhibits a Mannerist characteristic of the artist. The artist's style of creating mass through tonal divisions in his paintings demonstrates a contemporary interpretation extending from the Byzantine art tradition, El Greco, and expressionist explorations to the present day. Ünker also used the expressionist approach found in his paintings in his first short film, "A Glimmer of Hope," which was also his thesis project. The backgrounds of the film were drawn on paper, painted using various mediums, and edited by the artist using computer software. The film "Light of Hope" incorporates hand-drawn illustrations alongside live-action footage, blending the artist's own pictorial and graphic elements using the Rotoscope technique. Featuring line, color, typographic elements, and digital manipulations, the film presents a unique cinematographic approach. The artist continues to work on screenplays focusing on human rights and history. She also conducts interviews with film artists for national publications and writes articles about various films.