India · 2016
The Dupatta
She lifted her hand to her brow to cut the afternoon sun, and for a moment one eye was in shadow and one was not.
This story imagines, it does not document. It is what the photograph made me feel.
Pushkar. One of the first places I ever pointed a camera in this country, before I knew what I was doing or what I was looking for. The cloth over her head was printed so finely I could read the pattern from across the lane. The stack of bangles came halfway up her forearm and moved when she moved, a sound before a sight.
I made the frame in the pause before her hand came down. A second later the light shifted, the moment closed, and she was just a woman in a doorway again, wondering what I wanted.
I did not know then how good it was. You rarely do. It went into a folder and waited years for me to catch up to it.
— Sefa Yamak, Istanbul-based portrait photographer. Pushkar, Rajasthan, autumn 2016. From the INDIA series.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm · Signed & numbered on verso · Certificate of Authenticity included
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