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SEFA YAMAK
The Hardest Winter / 08The Easiest Smile
A village boy grins with two prominent front teeth, snow behind him, eastern Anatolia — fine art black-and-white portrait by Sefa Yamak, The Hardest Winter series.

Kars, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey · 2017

The Easiest Smile

Two big front teeth and not a trace of shyness.

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

The cold doesn't seem to land on the kids the way it lands on everyone else up here. He was grinning before I had the camera up, so I went with that instead of waiting for something tidier. His shirt had little cars stitched onto the collar and behind him it was all white. Sometimes the best frame is the one the kid hands you before you are ready.

— Sefa Yamak, eastern Anatolia, 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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