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Untitled Portraits — Nepal / 02Behind the Schoolbook
A man with painted faces in his headdress holds an open exercise book in front of his face against a brick wall — fine art portrait by Sefa Yamak, Nepal series.

Kathmandu, Nepal · 2017

Behind the Schoolbook

He lifted the exercise book in front of his own face just as I raised the camera, so what I got was the cover photo of schoolchildren and a mountain lake, with his painted headdress rising above it.

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

I think it was a small joke at my expense, and I let it be one. His hand and the prayer beads at his wrist are the only parts of him left in plain view. I still like that he decided how much of himself to give.

— Sefa Yamak, Kathmandu. Nepal 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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