Born in 1971 in Istanbul, Turkey, Ali Kazma is a lens-based media artist living and working in Istanbul and Paris.

He has a master of arts degree from the New School in New York City.

Questioning social organization and the value of human activity, he highlights the relationship between reality's visible and invisible aspects by looking closely at the management of labor, time, bodies, gestures, space, and processes. Kazma's attentive eye collects specific activities in a broad range of economic, industrial, scientific, medical, social, and artistic spheres.

He is interested in spaces of social significance, places of production, industries, and handicrafts, as well as in the details of machinery and ritualistic, repetitive daily tasks.