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Untitled Portraits — India / 20Out of the Dark
A bearded man in a knit cap and heavy-framed glasses emerges from deep shadow, faintly smiling — fine art portrait by Sefa Yamak, India series.

Pushkar, India · 2018

Out of the Dark

Almost everything around him fell into black, so only his face and the white of his beard came up.

This story imagines, it does not document. It is what the photograph made me feel.

He wears a knit cap and heavy glasses, and there is the start of a smile in his eyes. I underexposed on purpose and let the shadow do the rest. He held still long enough for me to be sure of focus.

— Sefa Yamak, Pushkar. India series.

Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm · Signed & numbered on verso · Certificate of Authenticity included

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