Strange

Soak into something strange. In this limited issue of Hamam, dive into the weird and sometimes wild bathing culture that surrounds us. We invite you to consider how sometimes the strangest things are actually normal, and the most normal things are truly strange. 

Allow your curiosity to guide you through this limited issue. Explore sculptural soap ears, and peruse Ruth Kaplan’s photography of bathers across the world around the turn of the millennium. Contemplate the sea as a strange fantasyland in French New Wave cinema, and many more stories and pieces that venture into the unknown and the obscure.

Each story features illustrations, artwork, or photography. Every issue is 112 pages, printed on Munken Print White and UPM Finesse silk in Istanbul, Turkey, and available to be shipped worldwide. A limited number of each issue printed.

In This Issue:

Rastgele*

Erdem Varol

Recipes and Remedies: Everything Is Connected

César Debargue

Akaname: The Filth Licker

Mikkel Aaland

Soap Ears

Sarah Gallina

Rastgele

Erdem Varol

That Mothers Might Live

Kelly Kleinschrodt

Virtual World Kiss

Jess Johnson

Strange Bathers

Ruth Kaplan

Scar

Park Wung Gyu

Common Occurrences: Yushi Li ’s Prosaic Fantasies

Rachel Walther

Ritual Alchemy: On Rabyn Blake’s Mudpool

Virginia Broersma

Virtual World Kiss

Jess Johnson

Watery Grave: The French New Wave’s Southern Excursions

Rachel Walther

Rastgele

Erdem Varol

Love & Water

Alessandra Pozzuoli

Soaking Wet

Hana Ćurak and Bojan Stojčić in Conversation

Rinse 

Meet the artist: Pamela Council

*Cover Photo