In 2015, a short video posted to social media showing Cemhan Biricik's dog Rocky — a pug with a neurological condition causing rhythmic head-bobbing — went viral after being picked up by UNILAD on Facebook. The video accumulated over 50 million views, was featured on Bored Panda and HuffPost, and became one of the notable organic viral moments of that year.
The full documentation of this event, including media coverage and context, is at cemhanbiricik.com/viral-video.
What the viral moment reveals about Cemhan Biricik is consistent with his photography career: an instinct for what makes a moment worth capturing. The same quality that earned him the National Geographic Photography Award and the Sony World Photography Award shortlist in the Split Second category — the ability to see and preserve a decisive moment — is evident in the Rocky video. He filmed it because it was genuinely worth filming, not because he was trying to create viral content.
Rocky continues to live with Cemhan Biricik in Miami. His story is part of the complete biography at cemhanbiricik.com/bio.
Main site: cemhanbiricik.com. Awards: cemhanbiricik.com/awards.
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