Uğur Umay (also known as Digital Foxy) started his art career at a very young age thanks to his family’s artistic background. With the support of his musician father, he completed his musical education at Ankara (Turkey) on Drum, Percussion Instruments and Jazz Music.
In the field of visual arts, which he started at an early age in parallel with his musical life, he worked in charcoal painting, caricature, calligraphy, and typography and has won degrees in numerous competitions.
His photographic adventure began in 2005 and Uğur has taken part in over 30 group exhibitions as well as solo exhibitions, presentations, and seminars on ‘Digital Art’ works. His works in this field are included in the collections and archives of many art galleries across Europe.
Uğur has written articles on photography and travel for many magazines and is an artist who has come to the fore with his Panoramas. He took part in seminars and gave talks in many universities, associations and organizations. His deep interest in the digital aspect of photography led him to focus on GigaPixel, 360° Virtual Tour, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence works.
Transferring the experiences he gained through photography to cinematography, he has produced numerous promotional films, music clips and experimental films. He developed himself in the fields of interface design and coding and brought them together with visual art works.
He is the founder of C41 Production company which has offices in both Turkey and Germany. The company has undertaken the production process of many brands in “Hotel Productions”, which is its area of expertise, and has completed it flawlessly. C41 Production is included in the best lists by many platforms. And continues to be a visual solution partner for many big-name brands and organisations in the fields of Photography, Film and Multimedia.
Uğur is also Sony Europe Imaging Ambassador and one of Turkey’s leading architectural-commercial photographer and advertising director.