Everyone\u2019s life was their own. No one interfered in another\u2019s private space. That\u2019s why these questions feel foreign, intrusive, and imposed from outside to me. I believe defining people through such questions is more about categorizing than understanding. As a photographer, I found a way to express this discomfort through art.I chose 11 questions I frequently encounter. I represented each with a scene, a costume, and an expression. 11 questions, 11 photographs, 11 identities.<\/p>\n
These photographs are less of an answer and more of a stance. They say, \u201cDon\u2019t ask who I am, see me as I am.\u201dOur identity may or may not exist. It may change or remain the same. It\u2019s not anyone\u2019s place to know or judge. We are human first.This project I call Our Identities is a look at the labels people try to stick on me. In each photograph, I made these questions visible through my own body but did not answer them. Because I know every answer can turn into another box. Costume design and concept design by \u015eirin Eda Duman and lighting design by Mustafa Karakoyun were more than support; we carried the visual and emotional weight of this process together. Our Identities is not a judgment. It is an expression.Not to draw a line, but to remind how unnecessary lines are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our Identities began with questions I am often asked.\u201cAre you gay?\u201d, \u201cAre you Muslim?\u201d, \u201cAre you Turkish?\u201d, \u201cAre you Alevi?\u201d, \u201cAre you political? \u201dThese are questions I don\u2019t ask anyone, but others do not hesitate to ask me. I didn\u2019t grow up in a home like that. We didn\u2019t talk about these topics with my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2079,"featured_media":64494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"custom","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"no-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"hide","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0","single_blog_custom":"34148"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"no-crop","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","override_template":"1","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[393],"tags":[2811,550,2812],"edicao":[2813],"status_da_inscricao":[],"coauthors":[3098],"class_list":["post-64493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imagem-destacada","tag-destaque-2026","tag-imagem-destacada","tag-premio-portfolio-fotodoc-2026","edicao-premio-portfolio-fotodoc-2026"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n