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SEFA YAMAK
The Hardest Winter / 04Under the Fortress
A young man crouches with his dog on a snowy plateau below Kars fortress in winter — fine art black-and-white portrait by Sefa Yamak, The Hardest Winter series.

Kars, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey · 2017

Under the Fortress

The fortress has sat above Kars for a thousand years and the town spills down the hill underneath it.

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

He climbed up onto the rock with his dog while I was shooting and crouched down without me asking, one hand near the dog's back. The two of them looked like they were keeping the old fort company. There was snow on the ground and more of it streaked across the slopes behind. I shot it wide so you would get the whole thing at once: the boy, the dog, the fortress, the cold.

— 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
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