Filmmaker, photographer, and music historian, Murat Eyuboglu started photography at a young age as an apprentice to Josephine Powell in Istanbul. After attending the Academy of Fine Arts, School of Photography (Istanbul), he transferred to Bennington College, Vermont. He lived in Paris and returned to New York to pursue studies in music history. His dissertation was on the utopian aspects of Gustav Mahler’s works. For about a decade, he taught music history at a number of New York-area universities. In 2007, he participated in the documentary Claude Lévi-Strauss: Return to the Amazon as Assistant Director. He directed, filmed and co-authored The Colorado (2016), a music-based documentary to which five composers contributed original music. In 2018, he produced a comprehensive book that accompanies The Colorado. His projects have been featured in venues such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Kennedy Center, the Broad Museum and others. He is currently working on The Amazon, a feature-length documentary on the world’s largest river and a sequel to The Colorado.