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SEFA YAMAK
The Hardest Winter / 07The Herd at His Back
A young herder in a hooded work jacket stands among his cattle on frozen ground — fine art black-and-white portrait by Sefa Yamak, The Hardest Winter series.

Kars, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey · 2016

The Herd at His Back

I found him out with the cattle, hood up, the animals crowding in behind him for the warmth.

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

He didn't step away or fuss with how he looked. He held my eye and let the herd fill in behind him. His jacket had taken a beating from the work and the weather. Young men out here have a kind of calm around animals that I notice every time, and he had it. One frame, straight on.

— 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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