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Untitled Portraits — India / 16The Quiet Face
A black-and-white close portrait of an elderly man in thick-framed glasses with a patterned scarf, his lined face emerging from near-total darkness — fine art portrait by Sefa Yamak, India series.

Varanasi, India · 2018

The Quiet Face

He sat in shadow and only his face caught what little light there was.

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

I kept the background black because that is how it actually looked to me, nothing else around him. He held still for a long time, longer than most people manage. The glasses are old and a little crooked, and I liked that.

— Sefa Yamak, Varanasi. India series.

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

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