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Tahir Ün

Photographer, video artist, curator, activist
      
Location: Turkey
Nationality: turkish
Biography: Tahir Ün was born in Turkey. He has been working periodically at Xinjiang (Uighur) Autonomous Region of China, Balkans, Caucasia and Turkey as a freelance photographer, videographer, curator and activist. Tahir Ün is an... MORE
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The Wonderful Affair
Copyright Tahir Ün 2024
Date of Work Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
Updated Jan 2019
Location Izmir
Topics Documentary, Editorial, Film, Gay, Gay Rights, Gender, Human Rights, Lifestyle, Migration, Mixed Medium, Multimedia, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Prostitution, Street, Transgender, Video
Harika is a child whose Kurdish family was set refuge from Siirt to Manisa at the end of 1980’s.

With his own words, he is a transsexual feeling a female spirit in his own body since early childhood. He lives in Izmir since 2000 and makes a living by prostitution.

Harika (literally translated as wonderful) poses with her self-confidence and courage for my multimedia project. It suggests to the audience an unjudgemental stance for homophobia.

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