The first meeting of BAK 2012-2014 was held in Diyarbakır and Batman April 20-24, 2013, with 24 young people between the ages of 18-26 from Batman, Çanakkale, Diyarbakır, and İzmir participating in workshops and activities on city, memory, photography and video for five days. The Diyarbakır meeting began with introductions and a city tour in Diyarbakır Suriçi on the first day. At Surp Giragos Armenian Church, the participants listened to stories about old Diyarbakır from writer Şeyhmus Diken, and in the evening, they took a short bus tour to see the city and its surroundings. On April 21, 2013, the young participants discussed fundamental methodological questions on the relationship between city, society, and memory in the workshops before embarking on a small exploratory tour of the Bağlar, Ben û Sen, and Ofis neighborhoods. They conducted one-on-one interviews in these three different neighborhoods of Diyarbakır to become acquainted with different aspects of the city, encountered stories from the past and present, and shared and discussed the audiovisual recordings they made during the subsequent workshops. As part of the program, the documentary ‘Black Gold, Golden Microphone’ (2009), directed by Metin Avdaç, was screened at a public film event at Diyarbakır Evi. The documentary that tells the story of the TPAO Batman Orchestra, which has a unique place in the founding story of Batman, one of the project cities, offered the young people who would visit Batman the next day the opportunity to encounter the recent history of the city through art.

Within the scope of the Batman program, designed in collaboration with Batman Culture and Art Association (BART), a trip to Batı Raman and a meeting with BART member artists working in the fields of photography, video and literature was organized on April 22, 2013. On the last two days of the Diyarbakır-Batman meeting, the participants continued the workshops where they encountered international examples on the theme of city and memory, as well as methods of documenting with photography and video, and started to formulate their project ideas. The 11 project groups formed by the participants for the research and project development process to be carried out in their cities started to work on various topics focusing on public space, suggesting that we revisit the memory of the city through places and sounds, and approaching the issues in the collective memory through personal stories.

In the second meeting of the program that was held in Çanakkale and Izmir June 22-28, 2013, the participants, who had formed their groups and determined their project topics after the workshop held in Diyarbakır in April 2013, focused on their research topics, developed photography and video projects focusing on the city and memory, become acquainted with the cities of Çanakkale and Izmir, and participated in public events organized as part of BAK. In addition to the workshops organized in collaboration with the Geniş Açı Project Office and docIstanbul - Center for Documentary Studies, the program also included workshops on documentary photography and photographing the city by Serra Akcan and Kerem Uzel from NarPhotos, and workshops on creative documentary in Izmir by Andreas Treske and Serkan Şavk from Izmir University of Economics, Department of Cinema and Digital Media. In addition to encountering different examples, the participants learned about the stages of developing a project on documentary photography and video, and prepared their photography and video shooting plans for the coming months.

As part of the public events held in conjunction with the BAK workshop program, Serra Akcan and Kerem Uzel from NarPhotos held a presentation and a talk titled ‘NarPhotos Apropos of Its Recent Works’ at the Çanakkale Yalı Han. In the first of the public events hosted by the Institut français in Izmir, Osman Köker gave a talk on ‘The Story of Four Cities: From the 19th Century to Present Day, Cultural Diversity in Batman, Çanakkale, Diyarbakır and İzmir’. In the last public event of the program, Armenia-Turkey Cinema Platform's films ‘Don't Get Lost Children’ and ‘I Left My Shoes in Istanbul’ were screened with the participation of their directors Gülengül Altıntaş and Nigol Bezjian, followed by a discussion on film co-production in two countries.

The third and final workshop of BAK 2012-2014 was held in Diyarbakır November 29-December 4, 2013. In the workshop, 9 photographs and video works produced during the summer period were thoroughly evaluated with the consultants and brought to the completion stage. As part of the workshop, a public panel titled ‘Variations on City and Memory’ was held December 2, 2013 with the participation of Serdar Darendeliler and Refik Akyüz from the Geniş Açı Project Office (GAPO) as speakers. A selection of photographers from different periods in the history of photography who produced works related to the city and memory were presented during the panel as the Geniş Açı team shared with the audience examples ranging from social documentaries to personal documentaries, fictional stories, and works produced with memory/found photographs.

Works produced during BAK 2012-2014 were featured at the exhibitions and screenings held in İstanbul, Diyarbakır, İzmir, Batman and Çanakkale between January-March 2014. The photography and video projects were exhibited for the first time in Istanbul Depo January 24-February 16, 2014, followed by the exhibitions in Diyarbakır at Sümerpark Amed Art Gallery, February 8-26, 2014, in İzmir at Institut français, February 22-March 16, 2014, in Batman at Yılmaz Güney Cinema Hall, February 28, 2014, and at Batman Culture and Arts Association, March 1-16, 2014, and finally in Çanakkale at MAHAL, March 22-April 13, 2014.