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SEFA YAMAK
The Hardest Winter / 14Two Old Companions
Black-and-white profile of a weathered man beside his ornamented horse before a winter game — fine art portrait by Sefa Yamak, The Hardest Winter series.

Kars, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey · 2016

Two Old Companions

An old man and his horse, both dressed up for the winter games, standing around in the cold while they waited.

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

I shot it close and from the side, his face and the horse's head almost touching the edges of the frame. The two profiles had been together so long they had started to rhyme, the same long nose, the same patience. The horse's headpiece was decorated for the day. He wasn't posing. He was just waiting, and I caught him at 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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