// SEFA YAMAK · V.2026CANLI
SEFA YAMAK

03 · 2016–2018 · Anatolia, Turkey · 7 photographs

Untitled Portraits — Anatolia

The colour portraits from across Anatolia — Doğubayazıt under Ararat, the village of Hörmetçi near Kayseri, and the highlands of Rize. Lambs, kids, and the few bright things a hard country keeps.

[ Series manifesto ]

This is the colour half of the Anatolia work. Out here colour is rare — a child's bright sweater against the snow, a lamb held up to the camera, an old man laughing. I kept these in colour because the day actually had it, and there was so little of it that throwing it away felt wrong. Nothing posed. I asked, I waited, and people let me make one frame before they got back to the animals.

[ Archive context ]

PlaceAnatolia, Turkey
Years2016–2018
EditionEdition of 25, archival pigment on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm
ThemesColour portraiture · Village life · Gesture · Warm light
Tone
Format
Portrait(4)
Color portrait of an older man in a skullcap and pinstripe jacket holding a white goat kid, snow-covered mountains behind — fine art portrait by Sefa Yamak, Anatolia series.
Anatolia, Turkey · Ed. of 25The Kid in His Hands
Color portrait of an older couple seated on a stone wall with a small dog, a snowy plain and mountains under heavy cloud behind — fine art portrait by Sefa Yamak, Anatolia series.
Anatolia, Turkey · Ed. of 25The Two of Them and the Dog
Close portrait of a boy with short hair and a dark knit sweater turning to look back, his face lit warm against a cold blue sky and faint mountains — fine art portrait by Sefa Yamak, Anatolia series.
Anatolia, Turkey · Ed. of 25Dusk on His Face
Colour portrait of a smiling elderly woman in glasses and a headscarf, a red vest over a green cardigan and a floral apron, hands folded in her lap — fine art portrait by Sefa Yamak, Anatolia series.
Anatolia, Turkey · Ed. of 25Folded Hands
Landscape(3)
Color portrait of a young girl with ponytails in a knit sweater hugging a white lamb, snow behind her — fine art portrait by Sefa Yamak, Anatolia series.
Anatolia, Turkey · Ed. of 25Her Lamb
Color portrait of an old man in a skullcap and pinstripe jacket laughing with eyes closed, snowy village and mountains behind — fine art portrait by Sefa Yamak, Anatolia series.
Anatolia, Turkey · Ed. of 25Laughing at the Cold
Colour close portrait of an elderly woman in old wire-rimmed glasses and a white headscarf with red trim, looking straight ahead in a doorway — fine art portrait by Sefa Yamak, Anatolia series.
Anatolia, Turkey · Ed. of 25Wire and Glasses

[ Read around this series ]

Golden hour: the light that does half the work for youWhy the hour after sunrise and before sunset flatters almost everything, and how to actually use it instead of just standing in it.How to ask a stranger if you may take their portraitThe picture is decided in the thirty seconds before the camera comes up. Most of those seconds have nothing to do with photography.

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