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The norm is: get married sometime between 25 and 35, honeymoon, if you can afford it, then the first child, the woman on parental leave, the man who goes on to work.
But what if you don't want to get into this "relationship elevator", this relationship elevator that only goes one stop at a time?
Or not able to get on board at all because you don't conform to the norm?
Celine Yasemin dealt with these questions photographically.
She has portrayed people, like Francis and Eli here in Dublin, who do not conform to the classic role models.
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Celine Yasemin is 26 and lives in Dortmund.
A few years ago she began to deal artistically with the LGBTQIA + culture - here is a back view of Lucien, whom she asked in front of the camera in Arles.
It all started for Yasemin with an experience she gained during a semester abroad in France.
There she was part of a group of friends who campaigned for the rights of queers, and she met a queer woman who became a good friend - and who told Yasemin how she feels in her body, what it means to her, queer to be.
"Before I met Mara, 'being queer' was a term that I couldn't really relate to," says the photographer.
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How do we love, which experiences and inclinations shape our passion?
Celine Yasemin asked and searched and took photos.
The sensitive recordings show her friends and acquaintances, people from different cultures and backgrounds.
This is Andy and Mathew in their New York City apartment.
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The photos were taken where most of us are probably more defenseless and more real than usual: in a very private environment, in bed, naked, without make-up.
What all portrayed have in common is that they lead a self-determined life.
This recording of Mara and Lucia was made in Arles, France.
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Hanlin kisses Victor.
With her work, says Celine Yasemin, she wants to reach those who are not open to other forms of life.
"No matter how you live and what you prefer, I think it would be liberating if more people thought outside the box," says Yasemin.
"I would like to see more understanding in society and less condemnation of certain concepts or ways of life."
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While taking photos - here a couple from Cologne - she questioned her own way of living and loving, says the artist.
She herself grew up with parents who are still married today: the very common monogamous marriage.
“I learned from home that there is no third party in a partnership, that for one there is only the other.
When I later got to know people for whom it worked differently, I felt it was a total liberation of my own imagination.
To break away from the fact that there is always only one way. "
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It is these existential questions and mind games that drive Celine Yasemin in her work.
She is also involved in other projects with identifying people and with gender, and is fascinated by all those who cannot do anything with traditional role models and clichés.
Here: Hanan from Essen.
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Celine Yasemin has compiled her recordings from the past two years in a book that was published by Kettler-Verlag in Dortmund.
"21 Grams" is named after the weight that the human soul is said to have.
A memorial to leaf through, for more acceptance and diversity, and a suggestion: to watch the others thinking, to go into the worlds of the depicted, to pause: Am I living the life I want to live?
With the sexuality in which I feel comfortable?
Moritz and Lena, the two in this picture, think and live in Bochum.
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Before photographing people like Hudson (who posed naked for her on a roof somewhere in New York City), Celine Yasemin studied photography in Dortmund.
She is currently doing her master's degree and only photographs people, as she says herself.
“It's really nice to see how people open up in front of the camera if you take them and their subject seriously.
When the courage to show yourself how you are grows, it is very inspiring for me every time. "
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Before the photographer pressed the shutter release, she spoke to her protagonist: inside, sometimes for hours, she says.
So she learned that what looks easy in some photos was not always easy: “Almost everyone experiences discrimination in everyday life.
You know the looks of others, the insults that sometimes come on the street.
A French gay couple I spoke to have even been physically assaulted once while holding hands in public.
And many have parents who do not accept their children's sexuality or who do not know anything about it. "Yet, says Celine Yasemin, all people want only one thing:" They want to let themselves go without fear and be loved as they are. "
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