{"id":42913,"date":"2015-07-01T19:02:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T13:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emahomagazine.com\/?p=42913"},"modified":"2022-10-04T08:08:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T08:08:49","slug":"manik-katyal-on-halil-koyutorks-i-am-playing-ping-pong-now-photography-sexuality-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emahomagazine.com\/manik-katyal-on-halil-koyutorks-i-am-playing-ping-pong-now-photography-sexuality-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Manik Katyal on Halil Koyutork&#8217;s &#8220;I am Playing Ping Pong Now&#8221; &#8211; Photography, Sexuality, Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"42913\" class=\"elementor elementor-42913\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-707c915e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"707c915e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4b328d0\" data-id=\"4b328d0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3abeee86 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3abeee86\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 07-02-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Turkey &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><p>&#8220;&#8221;I fell into a state of mental and psychological distress after my divorce. That triggered me in a way to start this project. I was questioning my youth, the culture I came from, my gender, sexuality, and relationships. Through my pictures I tried confront these matters, and to reflect on the state I was in,&#8221;\u00a0explains\u00a0<i>Stockholm based Turkish Photographer,\u00a0Halil\u00a0Koyuturk.<\/i><\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>For over 10 years,\u00a0Halil\u00a0has been working on a long-term personal project, which culminated in the book &#8216;<a title=\"Halil - I am Playing Ping Pong Now\" href=\"http:\/\/www.halil.se\/product\/i-am-playing-ping-pong-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I am Playing Ping Pong Now<\/a>&#8216;, published by \u00a0Focuskop Fotoform. Intriguing enough, the name of the project came about when\u00a0Halil\u00a0<\/i>visited Iran about 7-8 years ago, and he came across this phrase on the blackboard at a school after an English class. The expression has remained with him ever since, and took on new resonances through time, which initially became part of his project.<br class=\"none\" \/><br class=\"none\" \/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42945\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emahomagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-01-at-6.48.54-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-07-01 at 6.48.54 PM\" width=\"594\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p><p><br class=\"none\" \/>&#8220;For a long time, I have struggled with the question of responsibility regarding myself, the people who appear in my pictures, and my viewers.&#8221; he says.\u00a0Halil&#8217;s work is\u00a0raw, seedy, descriptive, confessional, vulnerable and\u00a0attempts to recreate and respond to his intimate experiences he had, after his divorce.<\/p><p>With his stark black and white images,\u00a0Halil\u00a0takes us on journey where\u00a0the project reflects his attempt to deal with the dogmas and moral taboos about sexuality that are intrinsic to the Turkish culture where he comes from and grew up in, where he tried to understand the same from sexual experiences of others.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">With lack of distribution for\u00a0Halil&#8217;s books in Turkey, it talks about the conservatism in the social and political sphere of the country, whereas he adds &#8220;Personally, I do not have preconceived expectations in terms of how the audience will react to my work. I think each viewer will form a specific relationship to my photographs depending on their own background and ideas about sexuality, body, and gender.&#8221;<br class=\"none\" \/><br class=\"none\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-42944\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emahomagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PP0558005.jpg\" alt=\"PP0558005\" width=\"400\" height=\"618\" \/><\/p><p><br class=\"none\" \/>Calling it more of his personal struggle than a political one,\u00a0Halil\u00a0thinks that such\u00a0kind of intimate work might enable the viewers to confront their own prejudices and stereotypes about life-styles that do not conform to the so-called social standards.&#8221;<br class=\"none\" \/><br class=\"none\" \/><\/p><p class=\"question\"><strong>Manik Katyal curated Halil Koyutork&#8217;s &#8220;I am Playing Ping Pong Now&#8221; as part of the Asian Photobooks at <a title=\"Kassel Photobook Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/fotobookfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kassel Photobooks Festival<\/a>, Germany.<\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/emahomagazine.com\/category\/photography\/\">Photography<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-509d147b elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"509d147b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4b0e7a83\" data-id=\"4b0e7a83\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e7eb345 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That triggered me in a way to start this project. I was questioning my youth, the culture I came from, my gender, sexuality, and relationships. Through my pictures I tried confront these matters, and to reflect on the state I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,6649],"tags":[2397,6467,6468,407,4873,2408,6469,15,6470,6471],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emahomagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emahomagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emahomagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emahomagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emahomagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42913"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/emahomagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59593,"href":"https:\/\/emahomagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42913\/revisions\/59593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emahomagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emahomagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emahomagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emahomagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}