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Good Reads: Hamam magazine celebrates the art of bathing
The quarterly magazine started out by focusing on history’s greatest healer – the bath – but has since evolved into ‘the magazine of letting go’, according to co-founder and editor-in-chief Ekin Balcıoğlu 07/05/2021 7:27 am
Growing up in Izmir, Turkey, Ekin Balcıoğlu was surrounded by hamam culture. She didn’t engage with the ritualistic act of communal bathing herself, however, until she upped sticks to the US to study fine art and visual critical studies.
“I did not get into communal bathing until I moved to New York and needed a way to warm up to survive the miserably cold winters,” Balcıoğlu tells CR. “I became a regular steam bather at the Russian Turkish Baths in the east village and it was in that bathhouse that I met some of the most interesting and inspiring people, many of whom are lifelong friends of mine.”