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
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