Yıldız Moran (née Arun; 24 July 1932 – 15 April 1995) was a Turkish photographer who was active from 1950 to 1962.^[1][2][3][4] Her work has posthumously been shown in solo exhibitions at Pera Museum and at İstanbul Modern in Istanbul, and is held in the collection of the latter.

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Moran attended Robert College in Istanbul, leaving in her senior year. Following the advice of her uncle, art historian Mazhar Şevket İpşiroğlu [tr], she then moved to the UK and studied photography first at Bloomsbury Technical College and then at Ealing Technical College in London.^[1]

She was active as a photographer from 1950 to 1962,^[1] when she gave up photography for lexicography.^[5]

Moran married poet Özdemir Asaf in 1963 and had three children in four years.^[6]

• Fotoğrafcı. Istanbul: Adam, 1998. ISBN 975-418-508-5. Exhibition catalogue.
• Yıldız Moran: Zamansız Fotoğraflar / Timeless Photographs. Istanbul: Pera Museum, 2013. ISBN 978-605-4642-20-5. Exhibition catalogue. Text in Turkish and English.
• Yıldız Moran. Eczacıbaşı Photographers Series. Istanbul: Eczacıbaşi, 2017. Edited by Merih Akoğul. ISBN 978-605-61665-7-0. A retrospective. Text in Turkish and English.

• Timeless Photographs, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013/14^[7]
• Yıldız Moran: A Mountain Tale, İstanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey, 2019^[8][9][10]

Moran's work is held in the following permanent collection:

• İstanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey^[11]