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Untitled Portraits — Istanbul / 13Behind the Bars
A young man leans on a window ledge behind iron bars beside an old flat-iron and a small bowl — street photograph by Sefa Yamak, Istanbul series.

Istanbul, Turkey · 2018

Behind the Bars

Iron bars crossed the window of a worn workshop.

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

A young man leaned out over the sill, looking down at something small in his hands. Beside him sat an old flat-iron and a little bowl on the chipped plaster. The wall was peeling everywhere. I shot through the bars and let them stay in the frame.

— Sefa Yamak, Istanbul. Istanbul series.

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

Edition
Edition of 25 · signed & numbered
Paper
Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm
Process
Archival pigment print
Sizes
30×40 cm · 50×60 cm · 60×80 cm · 80×100 cm
Certificate
Signed certificate of authenticity
Production
Produced to order
Price
On request
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