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SEFA YAMAK
The Hardest Winter / 06Out of the Dark
Tight black-and-white portrait of a hooded young man with textured skin and an intense gaze, Kars — fine art portrait by Sefa Yamak, The Hardest Winter series.

Kars, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey · 2017

Out of the Dark

He pulled his hood in against the wind and looked straight down the lens, and I left it exactly there.

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

Some people you have to coax. He was not one of them. The skin told its own story, roughed up a little by the cold, and his eyes didn't move while I worked. I have learned not to talk a face like that into softening. The look he gave me was the photograph, so I just took it.

— Sefa Yamak, Kars, winter. The Hardest Winter 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
Signed & numberedCertificate of authenticityShips worldwide

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