KÜBRA ELMAS is an agricultural engineer from Şanlıurfa, Türkiye, whose work focuses on regenerative organic cotton and the long-term relationship between land, climate, and cultivation within the Euphrates basin.

Raised in one of the world’s oldest agricultural landscapes, she brings both scientific understanding and lived experience to the project — a perspective shaped not only by formal study, but by lifelong familiarity with the land, its seasons, and the people who work within it. Her work is further informed by close relationships with farming communities across the region and a professional life spent working alongside growers throughout the agricultural landscape she calls home.

During her university studies, she spent approximately eighteen months in Poland, an experience that broadened her understanding of how different cultures relate to landscape, agriculture, and place. It was also during this period that she developed a growing interest in photography as a way of observing and documenting the world around her.

Her contribution to The Breath Of First Fields extends beyond field collaboration. Through writing, observation, and regional knowledge, she helps ground the work in contemporary agricultural life while maintaining a connection to the deeper continuity of the landscape itself. Her perspective reflects an understanding of agriculture not simply as industry, but as an ongoing relationship between people, cultivation, water, and place across generations.

Her work also explores how crops adapt to environmental stress and changing conditions — questions that are increasingly important across the region today. Within the project, her voice helps connect ancient settlement, cultivated land, and present-day agricultural life into a shared and continuing story.